LinkedIn to chow down on Microsoft's cloudy dogfood Microsoft has rewarded LinkedIn - the social-media-for-suits and corporate one-upmanship platform - for its contribution to the Redmondian bottom line by booting the outfit into the public cloud. LinkedIn revenue was up 25 per cent in last week's earnings bonanza – a reflection of the growth of the network, which currently …
The wailing in Microsoft's user forums over the Skype transition from the "Classic" version 7 to the somewhat feature-lite world of version 8 has continued even after the axe finally fell last year.
I lost track of the times when the client returned an "invalid password" error message, or hanged, or worked until you videocalled and were rewarded with a black window instead of the video. All of this meant "you must update to the newest version before logging in".
So, bodes well, then.
"inappropriate" content off the site
Doesn't work - there are still very disturbed people there (optimistic, but disturbed) the type that think collecting contacts like Top Trumps** will somehow make them CEO of a huge corp - not that it matters, every small businessman with => 1 employee delusions calls himself CEO on LinkedIn).
** Or Pokemon, maybe.
LinkedIn will fall over and die, a bit like the TSB did when it left Santander.
LinkedIn is marginally less useful than one of my old socks that have departed the washing machine via a wormhole to the HorseHead Nebula
I keep getting invitations to connect to a couple of dead people though, so it may have some uses, one of them owes me money.
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