Why did Microsoft buy Yammer? SharePoint was already a few versions in, and providing a decent level of collaboration albeit it not lite. BPOS (Microsoft Online Services before it changed to Office 365) was also around at the time.

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Alistair Pugin

Loryan Strant
1 min readJan 9, 2017

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Yes SharePoint was a few versions in, but the newsfeed functionality was nowhere close to Yammer — it was siloed and limited.

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