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- inactive, on 02/01/2008, -10/+823Is it just me, or is the title inaccurate; they aren't buying. They've just put in an offer to buy. Quite a difference there
- inactive, on 02/01/2008, -26/+610YAHOOSOFT or MICROHOO!
- betterth, on 02/01/2008, -21/+310I love how Microsoft opts to spend 44.6$ billion dollars and every digger from here to Canada thinks they know business strategy better than what are probably some of the most intelligent men alive.
As for losing users? No one is going to ***** leave Yahoo if this happens. The majority of ultranerds who hate MS already have gmail accounts, and use Yahoo accounts only for Flickr.
It's just amazing that everyone here are qualified analysts for this sort of thing.
Heres an idea, maybe Microsoft has a plan before they spend $44.6 Billion dollars. Ya know? Maybe they thought it through just a tiiiiny little bit before they decided to spend their money. - pezholio, on 02/01/2008, -23/+259This must mean they've pretty much given up on their oh-so-successful 'Live Search' then...
- libertao, on 02/01/2008, -13/+200Are you saying a 19-year-old college student who spends all day on digg doesn't know business analysis better than Microsoft's top advisers??
- inactive, on 02/01/2008, -35/+192Bad move for Microsoft. They're paying a huge amount over the current stock price, and this will eat into their cash reserves, they'll have to take a charge in Q2, everyone will start bitching about "teh monopoly", etc.
On the other hand, they have to fight Google somehow, so... - aaron117, on 02/01/2008, -6/+160Damn they outbid me by $3,000,000
- Berkana, on 02/01/2008, -50/+202And they have the gall to bitch about Google merging with Doubleclick. Seriously. The hypocrisy stinks.
I trust Google. I don't trust Microsoft. Google keeps producing and thinking of great products and services for free; MS keeps producing and thinking of crap products that find ways of making you pay. - FUNKMASTERNICE, on 02/01/2008, -11/+151Microsoft is not buying -- they are OFFERING to buy.
- crusher2, on 02/01/2008, -9/+108A year ago Microsoft approached Yahoo and Yahoo said it was not the right time. Now, with Yahoo stock taking a big hit and a recession around the corner, MS is offering them a lifeline and virtually rescuing Yahoo. It's a HUGE 62% premium on their closing share price on Thursday. If this isn't the right time for Yahoo, I don't know what is. Sell, Yahoo, sell.
Maybe now Google will some some credible competition if these competitors merge. - Nantel, on 02/01/2008, -4/+90As long as the leave Flickr alone, it's the only part of Yahoo that actually "works" the way it should be.
- crusher2, on 02/01/2008, -15/+99Wow, you beat me by a few seconds!
It's a HUGE 62% premium to their share price. - Stonekeeper, on 02/01/2008, -7/+90Micro-who?
- smellinator, on 02/01/2008, -2/+70They actually only bid a penny, but that damn eBay shipping and handling is deadly.
- Arkz, on 02/01/2008, -5/+69imagine the yahoo trailers, MicrOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- spazzcat, on 02/01/2008, -7/+71Agree...but would you turn down $45B?
- garionw, on 02/01/2008, -8/+68that means that (in Australia) if it goes ahead Microsoft would own 50% of channel 9 (ninemsn) and 50% of Channel 7 (yahoo7)
- betterth, on 02/01/2008, -11/+67Trusting Google is silly. The only reason users have to trust google is "They haven't screwed us over yet".
As soon as something happens, be it capitlizing on the vast amounts of personal data (more so than they already do) or giving data to the government after the Everyones a Goddamn Terrorist Act of 2009 passes, we'll all distrust them too.
Just saying, you might want to be a little more careful where you place your trust. - manicleek, on 02/01/2008, -5/+56Think no one cares actually
- inactive, on 02/01/2008, -3/+52I bet they merge them, msn and yahoo are pretty much the same page with a different color.
- zeebo, on 02/01/2008, -13/+62"On the other hand, they have to fight Google somehow, so..."
Why? Google is a search and advertising company, and until very recently Microsoft wasn't trying to play that game. Why does Microsoft have this urge to go after any successful computer company even if they aren't directly competing with them? Why does Microsoft feel this urge to buy competitors to the market leaders again and again who are failing due to inferior technology and then ram them down everyones throats by leveraging their Office and OS monopolies?
I still think that being split up would be good for Microsoft. Rather than have this huge amorphous blob that tries to be everything to everyone and tries to ensure that by tying all their stuff together without allowing anyone else to do the same, and that has one clear focus or direction, you'd have a number of small companies who would have to allow interoperation, that would have a clear focus, and would have to produce good products, because if they released a pile of ***** like Vista it would be all over, like it would for any normal company that hasn't been able to collect a tax on nearly every PC sale for the last two decades. - inactive, on 02/01/2008, -6/+55soon there will only be one company that would rule the world. it would be called "the company".
- azbmr, on 02/01/2008, -4/+49Damn, you should be able to delete your own worthless comment, once you realize that it is worthless. Digg me down.
- gboning, on 02/01/2008, -14/+59credible competition? This'll just give Google a tighter stranglehold, we all know that if microsoft buys Yahoo then microsoft is going to screw up Yahoo.
- ilgaz, on 02/01/2008, -7/+51So in case this deal works, will Yahoo offer a convenient way to move to other portals and delete all user data? For example, most of mailboxes at Yahoo are also result of people running away from Hotmail after MS buyout which proved to be right choice many times.
Will MS keep Yahoo as FreeBSD? Like them or not, Yahoo has been poster child of FreeBSD. Or will we see Windows Server when we check Yahoo's Netcraft? What will happen to Yahoo's policy to keep compatibility with 3-4 major browsers? Will people see "Sorry, Yahoo Mail Beta requires IE" instead of "To get Yahoo mail beta, Use Firefox, Safari, Seamonkey, Opera (soon) or IE?"
I happily installed Yahoo Widgets to my OS X machine and Symbian cell phone but I don't want anything from MS to access that local data for example. Do we start packing yet? - ICSU, on 02/01/2008, -11/+55If I were a Yahoo owner, I wouldn't accept dollars.
- sfrench, on 02/01/2008, -1/+45Kudos to you good sir. Here is your payment in Xbox Live credits.
- betterth, on 02/01/2008, -2/+44Hate to break it to you, but 98% of users don't distrust Microsoft. They don't care. Hell, after working in computer repair for long enough, users trust everything. They click ever goddamn popup and fill their computers with spyware weekly.
The only people who distrust Microsoft are the users like us, who represent a small minority anyway. - paulbjensen, on 02/01/2008, -8/+49Oh man, this has AolTimeWarner written all over it
- Sahtor, on 02/01/2008, -1/+37Atleast they did their move on market downswing. Means that 62% overprice wasn't so bad.
- ryansmith18, on 02/01/2008, -2/+37Doesn't make a difference. manicleek was right. No one cares.
- RickyBennett, on 02/01/2008, -5/+40dude using $ for ms just makes you look stupid
- Dochtuir, on 02/01/2008, -9/+44Picassa?
- SolidSnake24, on 03/28/2008, -6/+40"It is a shotgun marriage, but the person holding the shotgun is Google"
- Aharoni, on 02/01/2008, -8/+42The title is a bit misleading, isn't it? Microsoft to buy Yahoo?
FTA: "Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company... There has not yet been any comment from Yahoo."
Not exactly a done deal. - MMaster23, on 02/01/2008, -2/+33ebay auto-bid is a bitch, huh
- qster, on 02/01/2008, -7/+38The search interface will still suck balls
- livejamie, on 02/01/2008, -14/+45Microsoft!
- chris9902, on 02/01/2008, -3/+33If Yahoo don't sell I would be shocked. 62% above a falling stock? bite Microsoft's hand off!
- YiDing, on 02/01/2008, -2/+31This is really a move to pressure Yahoo into taking the deal in light of its recent troubles. Although 62% looks like a lot, it's still below Yahoo's 52-week high, and probably less than whatever they offered them last time. They probably knew that if they asked Yang privately, he wouldn't bite, so they're doing this to get his shareholders to pressure him into it.
- halsey7, on 02/01/2008, -2/+31Microhooligans.
- tdelet, on 02/01/2008, -17/+45I distrust Google just as much as I distrust Microsoft. And Yahoo.
- betterth, on 02/01/2008, -4/+30Uhh, Yahoo is already tanking. They've never been decent competitors to Google.
- daemon, on 02/01/2008, -7/+33Coming up next! Google Buys Microsoft = GG
- MikeN, on 02/01/2008, -19/+44Ah! There's the "Wow!" Microsoft innovating... er... sorry... buying their way to industry domination? Bad move. This smacks of desperation somewhat given Microsoft's massive overvaluing of Yahoo in hope the company's shareholders will bit and take the money.
- Ignotus, on 02/01/2008, -1/+26My guess is because Microsoft OFFERED $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo. The title here says "Microsoft to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion". That's a little misleading. That insinuates that it's a done deal.
- reeder, on 02/01/2008, -21/+46Amazing. One huge mismanaged company thinks that buying another huge mismanaged company will solve everyone's problem.
Everyone loses, but especially the customer. Time for a new search engine with a completely different style and algorithm. - div2n, on 02/01/2008, -7/+32If they do buy Yahoo, say goodbye to Zimbra. I just emailed them with my concerns.
What's the likelihood Microsoft would allow them to exist as a competitor to Exchange? Not good, I'm afraid. - CenyddMorris, on 02/01/2008, -7/+32Live is failing miserably, Yahoo are floundering, it kinda makes good business sense. If you think about it we should have seen it coming...
- sekyuritei, on 02/01/2008, -8/+32Back in the day, Microsoft moved HoTMaiL from FreeBSD to Win2k: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb49698 ...
Just think about Yahoo after this happens... Creative Commons in Flickr? Cross-platform support? Linux? Browser support? Think Microsoft will let an employee QA a site on Firefox?
Of course, Microsoft doesn't want to kill the userbase, but not doing things the Microsoft way does not compute within that company. It will become a source of internal contention... This might actually be the best thing that could ever happen to other companies and open source, since it is so full of impending FAIL. -
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