Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by gtirloni » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:14 PM UTC

makecheck wrote: post #103

In addition to what others have said (what does it get Microsoft, etc.), how would this even be allowed? It would mean most recruiters going through Microsoft to get to candidates. I can just imagine how well that would go over at other tech companies: how can they be sure Microsoft isn’t getting “first crack” at people, etc. and does Microsoft then know which companies are about to lose employees?

Most recruiters going through Linked Inc. is any different?

What would qualify a company to run an job board?

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by max_ » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:14 PM UTC

A leas they will fix the LinkedIN UI, that thing was psiing me off!!

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by lloyd-christmas » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:14 PM UTC

SpaceManiac wrote: post #162

lloyd-christmas wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Large numbers of people in the tech community . Most people aren't us.

I would think that non-techies would be even more confused and annoyed by their computer suddenly drastically changing out from underneath them without their permission.

And then they'd get over it. Oddly enough, my parents upgraded this past week:

Mom: Honey, what's this thing stopping me from [shopping]?

Dad: Don't click the button!

Mom: [long lecture about how she's trying to do stuff for her grandkids].

Dad: Fine, just hit the damn button.

Me: DON'T HIT THE BUTTON! I'll walk you through it.

I proceeded to explain it to them. 5 days later they don't even remember/care. I guarantee you my grandmother doesn't give a shit either, nor do most of my siblings. So far, I'm at a 6:2 ratio of not caring (one of my brothers is a developer). My parents aren't exactly ignorant in regards to tech, but it simply doesn't effect them to the extent it bothers you/us.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by jackweirdy » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:15 PM UTC

Peroni wrote: post #141

The fact is, Microsoft needed a content ecosystem. Buying LinkedIn gives it a lot of content AND a huge stake in the recruitment game which is a huge and growing market. The deal makes sense.

LinkedIn content is basically the same as Forwards from Grandma with the odd job announcement interspersed

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by threeseed » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:15 PM UTC

ravivyas wrote: post #118

hammerbrostime wrote: post #94

I'm surprised by the amount of negativity about the deal here on HN. It seems like an excellent match. I could see LinkedIn as an asset for Microsoft anywhere in the realms of work collaboration and HR. No other social network besides LinkedIn comes close to complimenting MicroSoft's wheelhouse of enterprise utility.

I agree, plus Slideshare can be a massive boost to Powerpoint.

Actually there hasn't been enough talk about the companies LinkedIn acquired.

Connectifier - recruiting intelligence

Lynda - online learning

FlipTop - predictive marketing

RunHop - personalised content

Refresh.io - relationship content surfacing

These could be huge additions to Azure, Office 365, Bing, Cortana etc.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by r2dnb » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:15 PM UTC

simonswords82 wrote: post #152

gloves wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unsure if you're being serious... don't need to look much further than Windows 10 auto update to see how much Microsoft care...

Microsoft employs fifty thousand engineers. A group of them fucked up with that Windows 10 debacle. I reckon on the whole Microsoft very much do care about their reputation.

> A group of them fucked up with that Windows 10 debacle

I don't think that the auto-update feature was introduced by a "group of developers". This was purely board of directors driven.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by blahi » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:16 PM UTC

oblio wrote: post #150

The comments here are hilarious, they really reveal the IT bubble. The only real complaint about this purchase would be that LinkedIn was overvalued. And I wouldn't bet on that since Microsoft surely sent a big team of their brightest cookies to make a valuation of the company. But other than that, LinkedIn fits: it is a corporate social network, if you will. I know that "corporate social network" is almost an oxymor…

>And I wouldn't bet on that since Microsoft surely sent a big team of their brightest cookies to make a valuation of the company.

Yeah, I'm sure they did the same with Yammer too.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by _asummers » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:16 PM UTC

sz4kerto wrote: post #97

ivoras wrote: post #11

Oh, I can just imagine how the process went at MS: * Exec A: Social things are Good (coming to the conclusion about 10 years too late) * Exec B: Shall we create our own Google+? * Exec C: No, that didn't turn out that well for Google. Let's buy something existing. * Exec B: Ok, I've Googled a list of top 10 social networking sites for sale, and ordered them by list price, but really we'll need to come up with a strat…

Satya's steps in the last two years have been very well thought out, so I don't think it happened like this. They seem to be betting on cloud first and foremost, and on businesses (vs. personal computing) after that. LinkedIn is really in the same set of products as O365 (in my head, at least).

They're also likely going to try and move LinkedIn to Azure, which they'll use as documentation on how to move large shops to Azure, using it as their Netflix.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by lloyd-christmas » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:17 PM UTC

argonaut wrote: post #180

tajen wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forced Windows 10 upgrade became a meme on 9gag ("Went to the toilets and saw this", etc). I learnt about the story over there before it was on HN. I'm not saying 9gag is representative, but I counter the "no-one noticed the forced upgrades". Even my parents did. Everyone noticed.

Most people have not heard of 9gag. Most adults probably don't really know what a meme is yet either (they've probably seen a few, just don't really get it yet).

The hacker news/imgur/9gag/reddit demographic is relatively young. Some of us definitely suffer a confirmation bias from the misrepresentation of ages, especially given the significant population of boomers.

Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

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Post by btrautsc » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 1:17 PM UTC

pidg wrote: post #183

nailer wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine it was more like: - Microsoft has the money - LinkedIn is the biggest thing in recruiting (I don't especially like it either, but it is). I wouldn't personally hire someone via recruiters or LinkedIn, but I would hire someone via a recomendation from a contact I maintain on LinkedIn. - Microsoft makes business tools - There's a bunch of interesting opportunities for intrgating Dynamics, Yammer, and other MS…

Exactly. Integration of LinkedIn data with Dynamics and Yammer would be huge. Imagine this scenario: - User is logged in to LinkedIn - User visits your website - Their visit is logged by some JS to Dynamics CRM - A record is created/updated in Dynamics CRM, populated with their name, job title and contact details from LinkedIn Further down the line, I can see LinkedIn fully becoming part of Office 365. This isn't Mic…

That is basically steps 1 & 2.

Step 3 is you get an email (marketing or sales) because Dynamics notified assigned a task to a sales rep or started a job in marketing automation.

Then, based on you opening/ replying/ not opening the email, a whole new series of tasks are created.

If MSFT / Dynamics do this right, they will have a very strong Salesforce competitor.