Here's the playbook as I see it: Once the deal closes you migrate all back end services to Azure and go through the code front to back to ensure everything is kosher. In TikTok's case it would probably be the latter. Most outside investors would want to have some sort of exit strategy which is usually either an acquisition or taking the company public. The reason I think that is how they are open to other investors coming in tells me they don't plan to integrate TikTok into their business in the same way LinkedIn has been. I don't think this is so much of an acquisition as it is an investment in the vein of Microsoft's investments in the likes of Apple and Facebook. With their stock price being at a record high and they have steady cashflow, this will open up a new path for reconnecting with consumers. This is a big risk for Microsoft but one that they can afford to take. The acquisition of the business-focused social network has been working out well for the company and they are likely looking to replicate that success with TikTok users. Microsoft is likely looking at TikTok through a similar lens of its purchase of LinkedIn.
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Considering the company just killed off Cortana for several consumer-focused apps, and Zune, Windows Phone, and Band have all failed, the company may be looking at TikTok as a way to reconnect with a younger demographic. Further, there are few companies in the US that could cough up the $30b+ needed to actually purchase the asset.īut what is Microsoft going to do with TikTok? That’s a good question. Microsoft has found itself on the sidelines of anti-competitive investigations, in the US at least, which means that the company is a better candidate for the purchase. The big question is why Microsoft? It’s a question I have been asking myself a lot recently and here’s some speculation about how it ended up in the company’s hands.įirst off, for Facebook or Google to buy the company, this would be heavily scrutinized as both of these companies are under serious anti-competitive regulatory pressures and this acquisition would only further that scrutiny. If the transaction is approved, Microsoft would own TikTok in United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand it’s not quite clear yet how the two separate companies of TikTok would continue to operate. Specifically, Microsoft is looking to buying the app from Byte Dance which owns TikTok after facing political pressure and the possibility of the app being banned in the US. According to the company’s blog post, as long as the government lets Microsoft acquire the asset, they are looking to close the transaction by September 15th. Fuck Skype.While I keep muttering that 2020 can’t get any stranger, here we are with Microsoft announcing that it is pursuing one of the hottest social media companies, TikTok.
Anything else can be managed anywhere with their admin console. Teams? Maybe a few options, nothing like this, unless you want to decompile an MSI.Īnd that's it. That webpage looks long, but it is a dream for a systems administrator needing to get Zoom to users efficiently. Zoom has an MSI installer that you can just.download off thier website, and it has a shit ton of configuration switches you can throw into SCCM, Intune, Whatever Mass Deployment solution you are using. Skype's installation and configuration is impossible. Now they must pay, and if they refuse, they have to find another product AND deal with potentially thousands of pissed off users who are calling support. They let everybody use it for free, and when consumers and small businesses wanted it during COVID they got it.for free. Zoom took off because they had the foot in the door phenomenon. Our networking and desktop administration teams hate Skype. Also, Skype is IMPOSSIBLE to manage at an enterprise level.
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