I don't want to be LinkedIn with Microsoft | Computerworld
True, some of my reasons for not rejoicing about the Microsoft takeover won't resonate with everyone. I'll talk about those first. But then there's one very big consideration that I think could give a lot of people pause.
First, let's remember that Microsoft bought another business social networking site, Yammer, four years ago, and that hasn't exactly taken off.
One thing Microsoft did with Yammer was to integrate it with a lot of other Microsoft technologies: Office 365, Skype, Outlook, Dynamics CRM and Cortana. I think we can expect similar things to happen with LinkedIn. This doesn't excite me because I am not a big user of Microsoft's technology, and its integration efforts never seem to work well on Linux. Skype, for example, doesn't so much run as limp on Linux, and Skype for Business doesn't run on it at all.
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