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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by sz4kerto on Monday June 13, 2016 @08:54AM (#11893333)
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).
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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by _asummers on Monday June 13, 2016 @09:16AM (#11893540)
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.
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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by ebiester on Monday June 13, 2016 @09:33AM (#11893685)
...Because that worked so well with hotmail.
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