Microsoft Connects LinkedIn and Office 365 Via Profile Cards, Starting To Capitalize on $26B Deal (geekwire.com) 52
More than a year after Microsoft announced its plans to purchase LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, the technology giant is rolling out some of the first integrations with the business social network. From a report: At its Ignite conference in Orlando this morning, Microsoft plans to announce that Office 365 will include a new "profile card" that can display LinkedIn information. For example, interviewers using Outlook would be able to easily access LinkedIn profiles of job seekers. This integration, the first between Office 365 and LinkedIn since the acquisition, is designed to make it easier for people to search for others inside their organizations. Here's how it works, according to the company: "Users who have access to this feature can access LinkedIn profile information by hovering over a person's name and navigating to the 'LinkedIn' tab on the new profile card. Microsoft service administrators continue to have control over organizational privacy and connected features in their tenant. We respect end-user privacy and will honor your LinkedIn privacy and profile visibility settings."
Oh Boy! (Score:1)
Now can I finally view Clippies LinkedIn profile within office? I need to know if he has the credentials to be my personal Office365 assistant.
Why does Microsoft not understand its strengths? (Score:5, Insightful)
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...I frequently get resumes containing a LinkedIn URL, but when I go to view the LinkedIn profile I get redirected to a LinkedIn login page. I shouldn't have to log in just to view somebody else's profile!...
The sender should have an option in the send dialog to allow you to see the profile without logging in. To have that option universally is a privacy issue.
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A privacy issue?! It's LinkedIn we're talking about, goddammit! The whole point of the site is to get your information out into the public sphere, so that you can become better known at large! IF YOU GAVE A DAMN ABOUT PRIVACY, YOU WOULDN'T FUCKING BE USING LINKEDIN IN THE FIRST PLACE! Holy fuck. Privacy is important, but some of you privacy advocates are so fucking out of touch. You're worried about privacy in cases where users are going out of their way to be as public as they possibly could be! But then y
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...The whole point of the site is to get your information out into the public sphere, ...
That may be your reason for using LinkedIn, but it is not mine. And given the number of LinkedIn profiles that are not public, I'd say you may be in a small minority with your opinion here.
Re:Why does Microsoft not understand its strengths (Score:4, Insightful)
True, but if they don't do cloud then they don't have a chance in hell in the mobile space. No mobile solutions means not growth and effectively ceding that entire market to Google.
Not that their mobile efforts have amounted to anything worthwhile so far, but I get the thought process behind it.
Mind you, that still doesn't explain dropping $26B for LinkedIn....
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The decade of Ballmer was about fear of losing market dominance. i.e. always playing defense
The decade of Nadella is about fear of losing relevance. i.e. always playing offense
Never again will there be anything innovative or relevant about Microsoft. There's nothing left except resting on the recurring revenue they've locked entities into over the last 2 decades.
That's why.
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Right now it looks like Microsoft plays offense without knowing where they come from or where they are going, essentially playing offense with a blindfold on.
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You clearly have no idea what Microsoft is up to these days. For one thing, if you want to be part of the Partner program, you'd better have a strategy built around the cloud, or MS won't even talk to you.
Look at their Azure and Office 365 growth figures--you call those a "weakness", but MS sees the traditional on-prem infrastructure as the weak area with limited growth potential. It's all cloud, cloud, cloud.
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Microsoft IS playing to its strengths. It knows that its customer base is too stupid to switch to something better, and is therefore squeezing said customer base for more control and profit.
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"We respect end-user privacy ..." (Score:5, Insightful)
Linked In begins the Microsoft death march (Score:2)
As predictable as every other large purchase made by Microsoft, Linked in will be used to shill other MS products at the cost of core functionality clarity of mission. Finally, because it doesn't sell enough MS Office licences, it will be moved sideways into Bing as Bing Business, and then it will die a slow death because it doesn't also sell enough Teams licences.
Is LinkedIn taken seriously anywhere? (Score:2)
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Yes.
1. Aside from direct contacts from headhunters I have a previous relationship with, the best recruiters who come into contact with me do so via LinkedIn.
2. The beginning process for me to land my current job happened entirely on LinkedIn.
3. I use LinkedIn to vet resumes of candidates continuously. In fact, one candidate was over-inflating his position history on their resume while their public LinkedIn profile was not mirroring the same titles and experience for the same timeframes. Why would your publi
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3. I use LinkedIn to vet resumes of candidates continuously. In fact, one candidate was over-inflating his position history on their resume while their public LinkedIn profile was not mirroring the same titles and experience for the same timeframes. Why would your public-facing titles be less glamorous than your resume?
Because it's visible to anyone without control or limit?
I know for sure I pull a hell of a lot less on my public profile than I'd send on a real resume.
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In this case, the individual was saying they were a Sr Analyst on their LI profile and a Manager on their resume (this sort of level shifting was present across their entire job history).
I find the disparity due to the public nature of LI forcing people to be more truthful than they would be on their resume.
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what a laugh, garbage recruiters in India run automated systems that spam linkedin profilers with keywords. They even see help wanted ads and run campaigns to find people in the hopes they might then negotiate with the company actually offering the position though they have no relationship with them. Then there is even a level beyond that where the process reiterates for third and fourth hand "recruiting" of the the position the wanna-be recruiter has! I dropped Linkedin because of the immense volume o
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I get that sort of shit from Indeed, not LI. YMMV.
I wonder how long it will be, (Score:2)
before "respect end-user privacy" and "honor your LinkedIn privacy and profile visibility settings" applies only to Office365 subscribers. I suspect Microsoft will make non-subscribers pay for their LinkedIn service with reduced control over their profiles.
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before "respect end-user privacy" and "honor your LinkedIn privacy and profile visibility settings" applies only to Office365 subscribers. I suspect Microsoft will make non-subscribers pay for their LinkedIn service with reduced control over their profiles.
Why not? After getting most of the way though the signup process, and then LinkedIn asking for my email password in order to invite people to join, the answer for anyone with at least one active brain cell should have been Fuck NO!
Anyone dumb enough to still join is pretty stupid, and half deserves what they get.
Another reason to avoid both (Score:2)
A most fitting partner for Microsoft.
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the next question is will it then go and bother all of your office 365 contacts with out linked in accounts attached? my guess is most probably.
I have a suspicion that would exactly happen. Lessee, a caught monopolist with a new operating system that sends a shitload of your information home to begin with, coupled with a bogus professional service that asks you to violate your TOS, or even your employment terms in order to get all of your contact information.
I'll bet there are people who are worried about three letter agencies that have no problem with this unholy marriage.
Still sounds like the Outlook plugin (Score:2)
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THe plugin is called CRM. They bundled it with an office 365 subscription.
Microsoft just sent you a message on LinkedIn.. (Score:1)
Welcome to the Microsoft slashdot .. (Score:1)