>Microsoft did buy LinkedIn and Skype, they don't seem in any way integrated in what it does (in fact, doesn't Microsoft undercut its own Skype app with Microso

>Microsoft did buy LinkedIn and Skype, they don't seem in any way integrated in what it does (in fact, doesn't Microsoft undercut its own Skype app with Microsoft Teams?). Microsoft has LinkedIn loosely tied to other Office 365 products now. When you hoover over a name, it'll show you whether the person is on LinkedIn, or that they have _x_ possible matches. They also have a resume assistant integrated to Word, and have some data linking to LinkedIn if you so choose. It was certainly an expensive purchase, but the premium tools and access to employee information may have also been valuable in terms of benchmarking objectively how good an employee's background is for a job or compared to their peers. I don't know how powerful the employer side of LinkedIn is for this type of work.