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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.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 04 2018, @06:35PM
Age is boring; its so half way. If you're gonna piss off people, so it right. MS should have required something much more useful, like proof of citizenship or legal immigration paperwork.
Wouldn't it be a novel hack to the system for crappy "BS as a Service" providers to put just enough crypto in the products to get on the naughty list where you can't do business with citizens of Syria or Somalia or Best Korea or whatever, and then all ..AAS products have to verify legal citizenship to make sure the NKs aren't stealing military grade ROT13 encryption by posing as legal US employees and stealing yer HTML and CSS files... I cautiously endorse this idea...