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Microsoft Connects LinkedIn and Office 365 Via Profile Cards, Starting To Capitalize on $26B Deal (geekwire.com)
More than a year after Microsoft announced its plans to purchase LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, the technology giant is rolling out some of the first integrations with the business social network. From a report: At its Ignite conference in Orlando this morning, Microsoft plans to announce that Office 365 will include a new "profile card" that can display LinkedIn information. For example, interviewers using Outlook would be able to easily access LinkedIn profiles of job seekers. This integration, the first between Office 365 and LinkedIn since the acquisition, is designed to make it easier for people to search for others inside their organizations. Here's how it works, according to the company: "Users who have access to this feature can access LinkedIn profile information by hovering over a person's name and navigating to the 'LinkedIn' tab on the new profile card. Microsoft service administrators continue to have control over organizational privacy and connected features in their tenant. We respect end-user privacy and will honor your LinkedIn privacy and profile visibility settings."
Now can I finally view Clippies LinkedIn profile within office? I need to know if he has the credentials to be my personal Office365 assistant.
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Microsoft is increasingly competing with Google apps, yet they consistently play to their weaknesses in doing so. The big selling point for Microsoft should be that you install the software on your own machines, your corporate data never leaves your building. If you want to have cloudy reliability, then you can install Windows Server on a bunch of machines and use HyperV to virtualise them. Instead, they push running stuff on the Azure infrastructure with no migration plan if you want to take it in house, storing data on their servers, Windows 10 telemetry, and integration with one of the Internet's most annoying spammers.
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I was done with LinkedIn after this: In Defense of Female Engineers
I wish they'd just let us always view profiles without having to log in!
I frequently get resumes containing a LinkedIn URL, but when I go to view the LinkedIn profile I get redirected to a LinkedIn login page. I shouldn't have to log in just to view somebody else's profile!
Yeah, I know LinkedIn probably forces that login to try to keep me using LinkedIn more actively. But all it really does is sour me on LinkedIn. Unless I'm checking my email, I refuse to log in to any account just to view content, and I'm very reluctant to do it in any other case, as well.
When somebody sends me a resume with a LinkedIn URL, I'll just ask the resume's sender to include a PDF of the LinkedIn page in question. I'm not going to waste my time and effort logging in to LinkedIn, or pretty much any other web site.
True, but if they don't do cloud then they don't have a chance in hell in the mobile space. No mobile solutions means not growth and effectively ceding that entire market to Google.
Not that their mobile efforts have amounted to anything worthwhile so far, but I get the thought process behind it.
Mind you, that still doesn't explain dropping $26B for LinkedIn....
Log in or piss off.
The decade of Ballmer was about fear of losing market dominance. i.e. always playing defense
The decade of Nadella is about fear of losing relevance. i.e. always playing offense
Never again will there be anything innovative or relevant about Microsoft. There's nothing left except resting on the recurring revenue they've locked entities into over the last 2 decades.
That's why.
Nice knowing you, LinkedIn
You clearly have no idea what Microsoft is up to these days. For one thing, if you want to be part of the Partner program, you'd better have a strategy built around the cloud, or MS won't even talk to you.
Look at their Azure and Office 365 growth figures--you call those a "weakness", but MS sees the traditional on-prem infrastructure as the weak area with limited growth potential. It's all cloud, cloud, cloud.
This takes the fun out of Googling your coworker's LinkedIn profile and comparing notes at the virtual water cooler.
The data harvesting of Windows 10 contradicts the assertion by Microsoft that they respect end-user privacy.
Does this mean that companies will easily be able to see who is trying to use LinkedIn to find their next job?
"We respect end-user privacy and will honor your LinkedIn privacy and profile visibility settings."
No. No you do not.
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As predictable as every other large purchase made by Microsoft, Linked in will be used to shill other MS products at the cost of core functionality clarity of mission. Finally, because it doesn't sell enough MS Office licences, it will be moved sideways into Bing as Bing Business, and then it will die a slow death because it doesn't also sell enough Teams licences.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
Microsoft IS playing to its strengths. It knows that its customer base is too stupid to switch to something better, and is therefore squeezing said customer base for more control and profit.
My experience with LinkedIn is that people seem to use it to proclaim how gorgeous, smart, accomplished and well-connected they are. Since even an idiot like me can see that, the other LinkedIn inmates, far more clever and accomplished than me, can obviously see that. They will grasp, in a millisecond, that LinkedIn is mostly populated by poseurs like themselves. Do they buy the garbage that the other poseurs post?
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before "respect end-user privacy" and "honor your LinkedIn privacy and profile visibility settings" applies only to Office365 subscribers. I suspect Microsoft will make non-subscribers pay for their LinkedIn service with reduced control over their profiles.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
"Microsoft is increasingly competing with Google apps, yet they consistently play to their weaknesses in doing so." Excellent observation. I think the history of Microsoft has been that it has always been behind the curve. It has bought as a way of bridging that gap, and may be an excellent business school case study in that regard. However, as a technology company or innovator, Microsoft hasn't succeeded. I think that is what you are seeing as it continues to try to find an identity.
how about they do something useful and find ways to filter out all the IT recruitment agencies so people can actually find jobs directly at companies.
I just report LinkedIn invites to my ISP as spam.
A most fitting partner for Microsoft.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Right now it looks like Microsoft plays offense without knowing where they come from or where they are going, essentially playing offense with a blindfold on.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
LinkedIn had an Outlook plugin before the acquisition, and it sounds like all they can do is iterations on the plugin for Outlook. Microsoft wasted 26bn for something that they already had.
Time to delete my account: I refuse to be a pawn in Microsoft's game.
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That's so 2016.
In 2017, we're digitizing, meaning we hand full control over to foreign corporations and data leave the building all the time, if it even stored there anymore.
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