The recent acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft for $26.2 billion was the biggest news of the last weeks. This move tells us a lot about the industry but also raises some concerns.
Microsoft owns the "employee continuum"
The first thing that must jump out at us is that, today, Microsoft is the only vendor able to support employee's relational usages from end to end. Either internally with Office 365 or externally with Linkedin, either for strong or weak ties, either for interactions that happen at work or professional interactions that does...