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posted by janrinok on Monday June 04 2018, @04:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the Your-Personal-Details-Belong-To-Us-Dept dept.

Yammer, the Facebook clone for enterprises, now demands users to provide their date of birth to be able to access the network. The fallacy with this is that while saying "Verify your age to continue" it says "Enter your birthday to verify that you meet the age requirement to use Yammer." which doesn't make sense for a social network designed for work environments where it is a given that users will be of adult age.

Microsoft have stated (Microsoft account required) that this is due to the pending merge of Yammer with Microsoft 365, however it also states that if the organization using Yammer does not have any users under the age of 16 then this verification step of sending each user's date of birth to Microsoft is not required. This is being seen as another step by Microsoft towards killing Yammer in favor of "Microsoft Teams" which so far has very little traction in the social networking space. This may be one of the final nails in the coffin for the ailing social network for corporations.


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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @05:05PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @05:05PM (#688437)

    In five years, will we be talking about the final nails in the coffin for GitHub?

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @05:21PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @05:21PM (#688441)

    No... But everything on GitHub will be blessed with NSA piggybacked payloads.

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 04 2018, @06:29PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @06:29PM (#688482)

      They've already got sourceforge to distribute cometcursor and various spyware as a binary download site; they don't need 50K college students version of babys_first_hello_world.py source code.

      Something I really like about python is regardless if the system I'm setting up has 2.7 or 3.x installed, there's a 100% chance that if I need some python FOSS cruft from somewhere, that it'll only work on the opposite version. Despite claims 2.7 was released 8 years ago and everyone's going to 3.x as of six months from now, for the last 8 years. Didn't Indiana Jones say something along the lines of "snakes, I hate snakes".

      I like how the Perl community handled the transition to Perl 6 by not transitioning at all. Much less painful than the python transition to 3.x that is scheduled to be complete six months from now. I wish the Linux community had handled the transition to systemd the same way.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Monday June 04 2018, @05:31PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @05:31PM (#688450) Journal

    Yes.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 04 2018, @05:34PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @05:34PM (#688452) Journal

    Genuine Microsoft brand nails.

    And coffins.

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    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @05:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @05:38PM (#688455)

      Microsoft brand nails are actually screws as anyone who has been screwed by Microsoft will attest.