Even if it's only the Job Search, this may well put job search engines like Naukri and Monster in jeopardy. Imagine a version of Windows where this search is merged with LinkedIn's Job Search, Company Search, and People Search features. The current search on Windows 10 is pretty cool - it lets you search both internally and externally for whatever you're looking for - a feature that's a spillover from Microsoft's tentative foray into mobility and more prominently, Surface. Here are some things I hope will happen, and if the rumors are true, I may be on to something. What I see happening with the LinkedIn acquisition is simple: my Windows experience is going to go through the roof. The most stable and most aesthetically pleasing version of the most used operating system in the world has now become the one with the most potential. Cortana is still growing up, but she's getting there. A right-click-and-refresh is still the cheapest, most easily available therapy for a tired brain. For someone who's grown up with Windows right from the time I could draw a cloud and an ugly flower on MS Paint running on Win 98, this current version of Windows is the culmination of all those years of pain and frustration. I may be stirring a hornet's nest here, but I love Windows 10. Though I only trust Microsoft in their mobility game as far as I can throw a Windows phone, I absolutely love their desktop and cloud game. Microsoft is ubiquitous in my life - both personal and professional.
Yammer is one of a number of overlapping technologies from Microsoft that is part of its social-networking portfolio. Microsoft bought enterprise social-networking vendor Yammer for $1.2 billion in 2012, and since then has ended up cribbing a number of Yammer technologies in its own Office 365 service. After all, this isn't Microsoft's first purchase in the social media space. I think it's a wonderful move, and something that's bound to make my life and your life so much cooler in the years to come. While many may think that this was something expected, others may laugh at this move because Microsoft had an opportunity to buy LinkedIn for way cheaper in the past (Ouch!), a few others may try to convince themselves that this is the beginning of the end for two major brands that may be in the last decades of their lives. (L-R) LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, Mirosoft CEO Satya Nadella & LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman.
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