Microsoft has said that it plans to accelerate Yammer’s adoption alongside complementary offerings from Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics and Skype. Besides, Microsoft can also offer unified communications as a service to small and medium-sized companies, given that many LinkedIn professionals run their own companies. Microsoft’s Windows 10, or “Windows as a service”, now provides free upgrades. Today, Microsoft’s office suite already runs on rival Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android OS devices. Also consider the purchase of voice over internet protocol (VoIP) company, Skype, by Microsoft in May 2011 for $8.5 billion.

Source: Mint June 13, 2016 15:22 UTC