Tuesday 26 June 2012

Microsoft Office to get social after $1.2bn Yammer buy


Microsoft has bought the enterprise social network Yammer in a bid to boost the software giant's cloud selection.

The $1.2 billion (£769 million) cash deal was announce on Monday, confirming rumours of the looming acquisition. Yammer will continue to run as a standalone service, both it and Microsoft supposed, but Microsoft will push its acceptance as part of a range of cloud services that also include Office 365, SharePoint and Skype.

"As a Yammer client, you will continue to get a secure, private social network — delivered with the same focus on simplicity, modernism, and cross-platform experiences," Yammer chief David Sacks, who will continue to head up the company as part of Microsoft's Office division, supposed in a blog post. Indeed, Microsoft has previously experiment with this sort of thing, notably with its OfficeTalk trial a pair of years ago.

However, according to a account in The Seattle Times, Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer is particularly keen on the waged people nature of Yammer's acceptance.

"Consumerisation of IT is a trend which I think perhaps more than roughly any other company out there, Yammer has gotten true with its viral acceptance model," Ballmer was quote as saying on a discussion call. 
Yammer has itself been greedy in the recent past — in April it chosen up the UK firm oneDrum so as to add file-sharing capability to its product.

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