Microsoft buys Talko, another Ray Ozzie company

Looks like we'll have to update https://cdn.sameroom.io/chat-timeline.pdf again.

The Talko team made awesome contributions to the Erlang AWS library (https://github.com/talko/erlcloud) — huge props for that.

Also, glad we (https://sameroom.io) didn't integrate with them, we almost did.

I worked with people at Microsoft who then joined Talko - I'm confident this is just an acquihire if Ray isn't coming along. It's funny because those people basically left Microsoft only to come back to Microsoft, so it's a great setup for those employees since they'll get probably a nice bonus out of it; but the product itself went absolutely nowhere, I'm not surprised by this move at all.

Here's the HN discussion for Talko's launch a year and a half ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353988

This may add some degree of context: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html

A bit sad because I thought Talko had some great ideas. I hope some are picked up by Slack or Telegram as well as getting worked into Skype.

I wonder if Ozzie is coming with, or if he's dumping the company. I always hoped Ozzie would win the power struggle and run Microsoft, but Ballmer carried the day.

Maybe Nadella and Ozzie can work together. We might actually see Microsoft start pushing the boundaries of computing again. Nadella seems like a pretty good collaborator from what I've read.

"Ray Ozzie sold out to Microsoft again, still doesn't get the world moves to Open Source" would be the better headline ;-)