<p>It's been just over a year since Microsoft pulled the trigger and bought Yammer and last week, Senior Director of Microsoft's Office Division Jared Spataro clarified the roadmap for the partnership moving forward in a Microsoft blog post.</p><p>Let's not forget that Microsoft paid a hefty $1.2 billion for Yammer and even Spataro admits that getting acquired sometimes slows down a lean startup, but in this case, at least according to the numbers he provided, Yammer has continued to grow under the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) umbrella.</p><p>I can tell you that when I met Spataro and Yammer co-founder Adam Pisoni last fall at the SharePoint conference, I sensed a true camaraderie between the two, and that isn't always the case either.</p><p>So how well has Yammer been doing since the big payday? According to Yammer's David Sacks, who was CEO pre-merger and now goes by the title, corporate VP of Yammer at Microsoft; it's been going well. Keeping in mind that statistics can be manipulated to put the numbers in the best light, he reports that the number of users on the network has grown approximately 55 percent to 8 million, while the amount of network activity has roughly doubled.</p><p><a href="http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/jared-spataro-outlines-whats-ahead-yammer-sharepoint-partnership-one-year/2013-07-02">Keep reading...</a></p>