Microsoft moves Yammer under Office 365; Co-founder David Sacks is out

[Brink]

Microsoft is fine-tuning further its Office businesses and is moving Yammer under Office 365.

Ever since Microsoft bought enterprise social-networking vendor Yammer two years ago for $1.2 billion, the Redmondians have allowed Yammer to continue to operate fairly independently.

But Microsoft management may be tightening its grasp a bit on the San Francisco-based Yammer business.

On July 24, Yammer Co-founder David Sacks announced on Twitter that he was leaving Microsoft and Yammer.

Read more at: Microsoft moves Yammer under Office 365; Co-founder David Sacks is out | ZDNet

 

[King Arthur]

First time hearing about a "Yammer", who/what are they?

 

[Layback Bear]

The best I can tell yammer is a business to business chat room.
That is just a guess

 

[ThrashZone]

Founder of Yammer gets the hammer

 

[Iforgot]

Founder of Yammer gets the hammer

and "Sacks" is the word?

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there

Yammer !!!! WOTISIT !! Never heard of it. I've been in a few different businesses and can say they certainly don't use it.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Another loser business Ballsmore bought?

 

[Arelem]

My company uses Yammer as an employee social networking site. Like a corporate only Facebook.

 

[aritra2116]

Wat is yammer? MS bought some hammer and tried to break Windows 8 with it?

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Wat is yammer? MS bought some hammer and tried to break Windows 8 with it?

No, M$ didn't need the hammer.

 

[aritra2116]

Wat is yammer? MS bought some hammer and tried to break Windows 8 with it?

No, M$ didn't need the hammer.

Well sure Jeannie, they didn't need a hammer. They only needed a 'insert witty word here".

 

[GEWB]

During one project with Xerox we used Yammer - not really that fond of it. Regards, GEWB