LinkedIn, a G Suite customer, may soon switch to Office 365

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Published onJanuary 12, 2017

published onJanuary 12, 2017

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Last year, Microsoft paid $26 billion to purchaseLinkedIn, its biggest acquisition to date. But if you thought that the Redmond giant would do everything it could to assert its power over the professional social network, you’re wrong: CEO Satya Nadella promised LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner thatthe company could continue to operate independently.

That doesn’t mean that Microsoft doesn’t plan to integrate data from the professional social network into its own products though: as we previously reported, Microsoft want to leverage LinkedIn’s data to improve its CRM products, but you can also expect tosee more integrations with Windows 10, Outlook, the Office suite and more.

But while Microsoft is planning to improve its own products with LinkedIn’s data, the social network may soon be forced to move its 10,000 employees from Google’s G Suite to Microsoft’sOffice 365according toBusiness Insider. However, it’s not for the reasons you may imagine:

According to someone close to the company, this change is not being driven by demands from Microsoft that LinkedIn switch to Office 365. We hear that Google is the one that isn’t thrilled to have such a large G Suite customer owned by Microsoft. Google doesn’t want to be put in a position where it’s sharing product road map and other tidbits with a company its biggest rival, this person tells us.

Google declined to comment, but Business Insider added that “employees are increasingly hearing that this change may be coming soon.” If this change does happen, LinkedIn wouldn’t be the first social network to switch to Microsoft’s cloud productivity suite. Last year, Facebook announced that its moved its 13,000 employees to Office 365, which led many to comment that Microsoft had becomecoolagain in the Valley.

Thanks Marc for the tip!

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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