Welp, sounds like it's time to land a job.
But seriously … having been so freaking immersed in LinkedIn over the last 10 months, I'll be curious to see what changes this leads to. It feels like a very different kind of acquisition — a service / site / destination, rather than a chunk of software.
I'm sure we'll learn more over time as to MS's plans, but I 'm hopeful for a good top-to-bottom clean-up and UI improvement. Not that I expect to be closely monitoring LinkedIn for very much longer (knocks on wood).
Microsoft to Buy LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion
Microsoft said it would pay $196 a share to acquire LinkedIn, the business social network site.
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Microsoft is a software company, sure, but it's also a bit of a nation-state with an enormously broad mandate. LinkedIn is an unbelievable data-mining platform; it has the ground truth about the global economy, especially around the technology industry, and it has a lock on that data. Microsoft will know what's going with Facebook before Zuckerberg does; it'll know what skills are being added to Googlers' resumes; it'll know what kind of searches HR departments are doing across the world, and it can use that information to start marketing its own services to those companies…
It's…terrifying. And we'll never really know what's going on. Which makes it kind of brilliant. But still terrifying.
– 9 Things Microsoft Could Do with LinkedIn https://trackchanges.postlight.com/9-things-microsoft-could-do-with-linkedin-2aec55c2bc72#.6bcpzr118