Comments on: Microsoft to buy Yammer for over $1 billion

By: kingmel

kingmel — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 04:16:30 +0000

Got Yammer at work. Company pushed everyone to get on it. Purpose is unclear. Little value. Seldom bother to read postings. It will fade away like the previous attempt at corporate social. Meanwhile, the real problems inhibiting effective collaboration remain…

$1B…? That’s $1,000,000,000…??? Utterly ridiculous acquisition, even for M$. Ballmer is da’ man!

Anyone who is complaining about Cook should take note. Ballmer is a complete clown playing at being the CEO of a horribly flawed company, and he still has not run the company into the ground. Cook, at his worst, could not be 1/10th as bad as Ballmer, and Apple has a lot more going for it than M$. As a result, Apple’s success will continue. It is simply logical…

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:52:48 +0000

We like it when Microsoft blows cash. We like it a lot. Spend Ballmer! SPEND SPEND SPEND!

By: MacHeadB

MacHeadB — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:29:06 +0000

Good Job Yammer Founders! Cashed out with Millions in the pocket.

Microsoft probably overpaid $900 million for it.

We need more Acquisitions Microsoft! Keep them coming!

By: ploogman

ploogman — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:18:48 +0000

what a dorky “me too” acquisition

By: Apple is Always Right

Apple is Always Right — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:45:12 +0000

JUST DO IT.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:20 +0000

They probably already have. They just want to buy and kill the competition.

By: tbone

tbone — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:40:35 +0000

they couldn’t write this app themselves for a couple thousand
?

By: Tobias Tate

Tobias Tate — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:09:17 +0000

Wow, and with a name like YAMMER, Microsoft won’t even have to rebrand it! It’s horrible enough to be ZUNE-worthy.

By: DogGoneToo

DogGoneToo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:20:44 +0000

They should definite buy it. But they should pay 2B instead.
Keep poring money down the drain for as long as it takes.

By: Billy Mitchell

Billy Mitchell — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:15:53 +0000

Good for Yammer. They get to cash out. Their solution is pretty weak, so it’s not like MSFT is going to ruin them. Their crap product will fit right in with Office.

Validates MSFT doesn’t get it and is desperate.

By: Demon

Demon — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:47:42 +0000

MS Office Professional Edition 2015. How lighter , slimmer and smaller, It ships on just 99 BluRay Disks down form the 101 it shipped on just last year…

By: russ

russ — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:39:48 +0000

If Ballmer lets steven sinofsky add his secret sauce of ribbons, charms and gems they’ll have a winner.

By: BMWTwisty

BMWTwisty — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:02:32 +0000

Just what the bloatware Office needs, more crap built into it. Soon they’ll be shipping the software on a hard drive because it’ll be too big to fit on DVDs.

By: PF

PF — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:54:29 +0000

Our company uses Yammer. It looks and feels like a poor man’s facebook, so… yeah it will fit very nicely with MS Office

By: Michael A. Robson

Michael A. Robson — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:49:55 +0000

“Yammer is often called Facebook Inc. for the workplace ”

FYI.. if you’re going to make that analogy (which is not hard to make) it’s worth pointing out Yammer has NOWHERE NEAR the number of users that FB has. Skype, on the other hand, had almost a billion users.

Yammer has about 4 million, and it should be a really cool addition to MS Office, Professional Edition, etc.