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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by yaakov34 on Monday June 13, 2016 @09:24AM (#11893618)
Honestly, this just sounds like a good reason to not be logged into LinkedIn ever, if I needed an additional one. Name and job title sent to random websites? No thanks.
Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by dhimes on Monday June 13, 2016 @10:05AM (#11893954)
My guess is that their longish-term strategy is to have everybody logged in to their platform when they are doing business work. Using Word? Must log in. Outlook? Ditto. They look like they are using SAAS to get the business software world back under their control.

You can't do it all at once, of course; you'll have some edge cases to deal with. But if you can manage it you'll have tremendous leverage.