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- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41"An unknown error has occurred. The auction will be restarted."
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -7/+34I'm digging this because I want to see what kind of flaming CapnCornflake will receive for that statement if this gets to the front page.
- RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22I can see the listings now:
L@@K! EXCLUSIVE OFFICE CHAIR STEVE BALLMER TOSSED OUT WINDOW!!
Autographed certificate of authenticity; BID WITH CONFIDENCE
Sorry, I couldn't resist mentioning that Mr. Ballmer is indeed ***** nuts. - sroerick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13OK, how frickin awesome would it be if ebay sold itself on ebay?
- jsg7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Ebay can just put itself up for auction.
Of course, I'm not sure what kind of buyer rating Microsoft has... - jole, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10*gasp* does this mean
"Microsoft Skype Professional Edition"
and
"Microsoft Windows Audio Communication Management Center (Powered by Skype)"
are on their way? goodness... - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Yes, everybody loves a good politically-aligned newspaper. Especially if it's owned by Rupert Murdoch.
- timmyboywonder, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Welcome to the world of BSOD'ing auctions
- sofianec, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Hm I really don't know - eBay announces a deal with Yahoo (big news - stocks jump high) then Microsoft acquiring eBay and merging it with MSN. I'll digg this only 'cause it's surprising. I still think it's a fake rumor - let's see.
- scott1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Sorry this actuion for the PS3 has been blocked please vist our new Xbox 360 section.
- ditangquan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6For Sale, one Operating System, Vista. Kinda works, kinda doesn't, lots of delays.
Original ship date 2003, now kinda sucky because the INTERNS revolted because they didn't get free towels.
Shipping free to US. Use Buy It Now and get Ballmer's balls on a stick. Wait, those are Poonjab Kurandahindhi's testicals...CAN"T WE GET ANYTHING RIGHT? Some one buy me a blue screen of deat... - Broncho24, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I've taken a look at some of the stuff that Microsoft has tried to get into in the past and it seems to never fail that they lose money except in the Office and OS field. Now I'm sure this isn't the case for everything that they pursue, but I do know that they never really make any substantial amount of money off anything like this in the past. This might be a good thing for them but I dought it. Also I will be the first to utter the word fanboy so that maybe no one else will be compelled to say it(yea I know you still will).
- b7j0c, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4its worth noting that MS is not new to the web. they have been pouring money and talent into web tech for nine years, mostly unsuccesfully. i don't think MS will ever be a succesful web company either, because at their core, they cannot embrace platform independence, one of the key drivers of the web stack.
- CalgaryTechGuy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Yeah, I'm really happy that they replaced the BSOD with a message box that really doesn't clean up the memory usage of the dead program and that causes me to manually reboot and "lose my changes". That's innovation.
- gekkokid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i'm expecting Microsoft to buy yahoo anyway, i'm expecting Microsoft to buy everyone out maybe even google, its the the microsoft way, can't beat'em buy'em.
- Quix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4And after the acquisition, eBay would only work in IE. Specifically, IE for Windows.
What a happy prospect. :( - Groady, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3My thoughts exactly... If Microsoft owns Ebay, Microsoft owns Skype. It's worrying that Skype may get screwed under MS. I can't see it staying free under them.
- kevin2735, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Can MS afford E-bay? Yeah MS has a crap loud of assets, but won't it be really stretching it? MS has never done anything that risky??????
- CalgaryTechGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If the acquisition takes as long as Vista, we have nothing to worry about
- Sundae, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Imagine what would happen to Skype (which was recently acquired by eBay)? It could look just as horrible as MSN Messenger or Windows Media Player.
- Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can't see eBay selling out to Microsoft. This would most likely be a stock swap, and Microsoft's stock hasn't been going anywhere the past few years.
Furthermore, you cheerleaders claiming Skype would be integrated into Windows Live Messenger, think again. Microsoft would bury Skype to appease the telecos and cablecos because Microsoft is desperate to get their software onto the set-top boxes at almost any cost. That's why they spent billions buying up Comcast and other cableco stock. They are trying to land exclusive deals with AT&T for their IPTV boxes. So sorry, but Skype would be ***** under a Microsoft acquisition.
I'd rather Yahoo and Google merged. Talk about Microsoft getting nuked. Microsoft would then plow/wasting billions more into MSN and then the institutional shareholders - probably at the behest of CalPERS - would force a breakup/spin-off of the company via a proxy vote, to separate the winning divisions (like Office) into stand-alone profitable companies.
I think adding Semel to the management of Google would be a great idea.
And with enough campaign contributions, I think a Google/Yahoo pairing would sail through the Bush Administration. The European Commission would have to be bribed to the hilt though...especially the Frenchies since loser President Chirac has lost his bribe money meal ticket after the fall of Saddam Hussein and wants to spend billions of euros on a French government owned competitor to Google. - cyberghost232, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2looks like were gonna have to run active x to use Ebay now.
- Unicron, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5@scott:
"I don't think those words can _propally_ used in that way in the English _langauge._"
I'd read anything I could get my hands on if I were you, you need the practice
P.S. I wish we had some sort of html or bbcode :( - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If Microsoft buy eBay I'll never shop there again.
- olorinpc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://expo.live.com
The fact that MS has Windows Live Expo... would tend to support the people yelling "fake." It has been in testing for a while. - IMA_Sellout, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I thought that Yahoo and eBay just pulled a merger of sorts... doesn't that make this a little irrellevant then?
- rabbott, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2hocus pocus bogus rumor.
eBay's founder and eBay's core values would be lost in a buyout or merger with Microsoft or Google. Really interesting that this story made it on to the NYP site. - ashanks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Microsoft Windows Anti-Piracy Alerter has determined that the auction, "MS Windows XP ** CHEAP ** NR**" may contain pirated material. You will be automatically redirected to http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/YourPC.mspx in 5...4...3... An unknown error has occurred. Please re-login to your Microsoft® eBay account. Your browser session will automatically be restored to the last auction page you visited.
- Gronkk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Once again Digg is being used for stock manipulation.
The editors should think twice before setting the "on front-page" check box for these types of stories. - drwhitley, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"Microsoft has considered buying eBay and merging it with its MSN portal "
Please tell me it isn't true. PLEASE! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Haven't gotten the BSOD in years. The problem must lie with you if you still get them with XP.
- stox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2An M$ acquisition would be the Kiss of Death for eBay. This would be the ideal opportunity for Google to clean their clocks.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5soogy...you mean as opposed to the NY Times and LA Times which are COMPLETELY unbiased politically?
At least the NY Post doesn't try to pass itself off as the bastion of journalism like those ultra left rags do. - rolosworld, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2in case this would happen... would this mean Paypal would be part of the deal?
- supert0ad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2didn't ebay and yahoo just announce some sort of partnership? i don't think ebay is going to partner with microsoft and yahoo
edit:http://www.digg.com/technology/Battle_of_the_Tech_Titans . front page even - crythias, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Buy it now .... 4 Billion dollars US.
- timmyboywonder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Say Goodbye to the "Apple" section on Ebay.
- antigoogle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This move is very understandable. They lost $30B in one day when they officially announced to focus on web services. Instead they could even buy Yahoo and nothing would be lost, even the shares would get higher...
Now they may be looking for the dominance of eBay and eBay technologies and their (especially Meg Whitman's) expertise on internet industry .. - daonlyfreez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nah...
eBay and Yahoo 'only' partnered, they didn't merge. eBay and Google are still tied together, and will stay that way, and only slowly both partners will be balanced out by eBay, apart from that, don't expect anything major to change there soon.
They may have talks, but I guess more like with Yahoo, about partnering up more. MS and eBay are close anyway, now it's up to eBay to divide the cake evenly to keep all happy.
Why would Microsoft now buy eBay? To do what? Merge Skype and eBay into MSN? No way, they both might be MS centric, but that would cost sh*tloads to buy and merge, take massive amounts of time (more than for Vista), angry a lot of eBay/Skype users, and could only degrade and destroy the product. Google and Yahoo (and maybe others) would at least lessen their partnership as a result of that, and then MS would be back at square one, with no major partners in the field, left with doing everything themselves.
Now you might say: that's exactly what they have been doing anyway. Yes, but the monopoly days are over. MS has learned the hard way that it needs to coop, that they are better off partnering than trying to smother or swallow everything. eBay is of no value for MS apart from: the MS centric attitude of eBay, the possible linking to MS products and advertising.
I don't think they want to burn their fingers on this one, they can get much more profit if they stick with their core businesses and try to extend their partnership. - CalgaryTechGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Scary
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Did you RTFA? Obviously not, because if you had, you would know how little sense your comment makes
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1So? Google doesn't make any money in anything they do other than the ad revenue. Doesn't stop them from pursuing other things despite losing millions on them.
- antigoogle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No, look, this is a NYP news; so NYP would be the manipulator here; not Digg. and it's been featured on Slashdot too... That's great (but yes, shocking) news....
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Actually, I'd like to it bundled with Windows, so that more people use Skype. Especially since they're giving out free calls!
- xbasilx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1l'd love to see those ***** idiots at microsoft covert ebay from linux to windoze. it would be a laugh a minute
- film42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Is it ime, or does bill gates look like hes really really tired or on meth?
I don't know which one, you decide. - thatedeguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Now that's an interesting concept. Microsoft Paypal. Between being able to auction ad space and have a built in payment system would certainly be attractive if I was a chair throwing web 2.0 wannabe. Beats the pants off of google wallet. Wonder if the Ebay feedback system would get integrated into a Windows feedback system that was a little more universal?
http://www.supergeekblog.com - quasipalm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"At least the NY Post doesn't try to pass itself off as the bastion of journalism like those ultra left rags do."
Dude. The headline yesterday, for the Kenneth Lay article, was "BAD LAY." I mean, come on, everybody knows the Post and the Daily News are tabloids, and we love them for it. But, seriously, be realistic, even the people that work for those companies know that they're no nytimes.
Oh, and the headline for the Daily News... "LAY AWAY." Gotta love 'em; they spend more time thinking up funny titles than writing articles. - SuperGhost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"Microsoft eBay" omfg... what about PayPal? "Microsoft PayPal" too?
- bittdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Guess this means they will now force eBay to work with Internet Explorer only...
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