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And can get rid of horrible Webex calls.
Webex at least works under linux (unfortunatelly only 32bit firefox).
Jit.si
Works in browser, no account, encrypted by default.
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
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Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#822Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is much bigger than that. Linkedin has around 7k employees in the bay area, far more than Microsoft currently has down here. This acquisition will transform Microsoft into a major bay area Employeer, with >10k people working in the region.
Why in the world does LinkedIn need 7k employees?
Sales.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#823LNKD is extremely powerful when paired with CRM. To the point that MSFT might have seen this as a better choice than buying Salesforce, especially as their own in house CRM offering (Dynamics) is becoming very strong, and far more likeable for end users.
The biggest loser from this deal was Salesforce, they will be gutted.
This move took me completely by surprise, and I'm pretty impressed in Nadella for pulling it off. Although LNKD is a pretty ordinary proposition (financially - and what else really matters nowadays) by itself, 1 + 1 can equal 3 if it is linked tightly with Microsoft's productivity products such as Skype for Business, Outlook, CRM etc. And MSFT took advantage of LNKDs poor recent performance to buy them "cheap" while making their management look like hero's when the market was beginning to think they were anything but.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#824Too pricey. They could buy more spambots with less $$.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#825Earlier quoted context omitted.
This would be great , if you're right, because this is how we get to a place where we maintain our resumé in one place (LinkedIn) and don't have to play the whole "Please upload your resumé. Now please enter in all the details of your resumé." hellhole.
There is a Fortune 200 headquartered in my area that, by far, has the worst application process and software I've ever seen. Aside from REQUIRING you to type in information like your high school's address and your high school GPA, they also have pre-screening booby-traps which you may need to lie to get past (e.g. my wife was applying for an HR job there and they asked if she had a bachelor's degree in HR, which she…
Let me guess-- they use Taleo?
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#826I think Salesforce is about to get much stronger competition from Microsoft's Dynamics CRM. If they connect Dynamics CRM with LinkedIn's massive database of orgs and professionals--a treasure trove for marketing and sales teams--and embargoes other CRM software from that data[0], I can see them taking market share from Salesforce.
[0] LinkedIn did exactly this when it acquired Rapportive—another popular sales tool. They let Rapportive continue accessing LinkedIn data but blocked competitors from doing so.
PS - They mention that, as a result of this acquisition, Office 365 users might be able to invite other professionals to collaborate on their documents or projects. It's interesting that they chose such a weak example, when it's clear there are much greater benefits they'll be able to offer. One I already mentioned, and many more are mentioned in this thread. Probably trying to keep competitors guessing?
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#827New headline... "Bloated, behind the times corporate buys bloated, barely functioning social network."
Man, if you think Microsoft are behind the times then you've not been keeping up with them. In the software development world Microsoft are about as with the teams as a company of their size could reasonably be.
They are ahead. Asynchronous first class language support is sooooo 2011!
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#828Great move. IMO this is Microsoft making a play for HR managed services -- look for them to sign a big deal with ADP / BenefitsExpress / buy someone like Zenefits to complement this purchase. The power and value of LinkedIn is as a recruiting platform; and recruiting is a big-money problem that's only getting worse. If they can turn LinkedIn into a benefits management platform, that would be a huge win for Microsoft…
", this is a great purchase."
You cant really say it's a great purchase without mentioning the price, which you didn't. I haven't done any deep analysis but my gut feeling says that 26.2B for stopping Linkedin spam is not worth it.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#829Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sarcasm, I'm thinking MS purchases the company knowing what its issues (or perceived) are. I see MS as the lesser of 2 evils, a company I can generally trust with my data. The 'Dark Patterns' that LNKD employs would hurt the rest of MS, so this less unethical behaviour would be as that result. Also helps that LNKD will be consolidated with MS in future, so maybe less pressure on the bottom-line as they'll be a pa…
I thought the 'less unethical' was the giveaway, as if you expect them to still be unethical.
With a culture as deeply infused with an utter lack of respect for user privacy, reputation or safety, I would expect them to be unethical in essentially all cases, short of, perhaps, a complete management purge.
Re: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
#830Time to delete my LinkedIn account, or otherwise corrupt its contents before MS swallows it all. Microsoft doesn't have the right to my intellectual property.