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Re:Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer by KaoruAoiShiho on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @12:00AM (#4160216)
Obviously this is strategic. Enterprise Social has a lot of room to expand, MS can do things that Yammer can't do on their own.
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Re:Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer by beedogs on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @01:28AM (#4160448)
Can, but won't. What have they done with Skype in the year and a half since purchasing it?

I can't believe MSFT's shareholders haven't gotten rid of Ballmer yet.

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Re:Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer by dewiz on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @03:26AM (#4160695)
there's been a lot of work on skype, most of it coming in the next months. it takes months or even years for two big companies to merge and align strategies, not to mention products and tech are often shared behind the curtains so you wouldn't know about progress until some big news or big release, ie. wait till win8
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Re:Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer by hpatel on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @04:33AM (#4160823)
Also, 1) potential to eventually sell MS products to yammer's customers. 2) being able to win other enterprise deals in competition with Salesforce/Oracle by being able to claim that you have something similar to Chatter.
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