Comments on: Microsoft Mugs Yahoo, While Yahoo Dithers: How to Lose to a Bear and Influence Nobody

By: erdem ela

erdem ela — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:44:19 +0000

It was delightful to see Bill and Steve sharing a stage and reminiscing about their stuff, but I was surprised that Bill (gadgets) and Steve (widgets) didn’t settle the debate about the original inventor of the widget. One can never have too many widgets. Somebody codes something you never even dreamed of wanting - suddenly everybody lig tv izle bedava ligtv izle garibim deyimler ?iir türleri çet chat sohbet needs a whole bunch of widgets because they don’t impinge too much on the screen/template real estate.

By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:38:07 +0000

I think at some point Ballmer and his immediate underlings (probably not a technologist among them) realized that the fit with Yahoo was a bad one. Now he pretends the deal isn’t doable for other reasons so that the initial concept isn’t admitted to be foolish.

But here is my question: Why should Microsoft be allowed to compete in search at all? As long as they are in distant third place it doesn’t matter of course. But if they get to be at all successful can’t it be claimed they have leveraged their desktop monopoly to do so?

If I were Google I’d have my lawyers all over MS as soon as they got into double digits.

To Jack Deed: MS ARE the bad guys. They have done more to kill innovation in this country than any other single entity. Historians will look back and figure this out. (Intel gets partial credit too.)

By: Jeff Stevens

Jeff Stevens — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:14:03 +0000

Has anyone figured out why Yahoo would want AOL? I’m sure Time Warner would love to dump that turkey before a new CEO is announced at Yahoo. What a disaster that was, and would be for Yahoo. Where is Steve Case anyway!

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:22:59 +0000

no matter who jumps ship from yahoo to microsoft the end result is two sinking ships and no real captains on either one.

ballmer is quiet now since he overstepped earlier in the year with his yahoo takeover announcements and aggressive tact.

after yahoo drank its own kool aid and put on the jerry yang nikes, it put the deal to sleep; the side effect was yhoo stock also got killed

so you really have 2 companies in the distant 2nd and 3rd places debating on who gets to cross the finish line.

news flash: the search ad race tape has been broken by google and neither yahoo nor microsoft will catch up

By: jack deed

jack deed — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:54:32 +0000

The whole tone of this story has a nasty anti Microsoft bent to it.

“thuggish mugging” for hiring talent? GOOG has stolen plenty of MSFT people yet where are the nasty comments about goog?

From where I am standing this story is not about a YHOO/MSFT deal, is just another valley insider trying to paint MSFT as the bad guy.

By: Robert Falkner

Robert Falkner — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:48:11 +0000

he will only do a deal when Yahoo comes to Microsoft ready to go.
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I guess for some people they are gonna have to just tell them they will because connect the dots is far too difficult. Tech needs to do something to revive itself and give me an excuse to get out of banks, cartons, and ships.