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Microsoft threatens to get more aggressive with Yahoo

engadget.com — No more Mr. Nice Microsoft. Apparently when Microsoft puts $44.6 billion on the line, it really means it, and the company just sent an open letter to Yahoo's board of directors stating in no uncertain terms that the 62% premium over Yahoo's closing price on January 31, 2008 was more than fair.

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  • BeerRules, on 04/05/2008, -15/+45Lets hope yahoo does not go silently into that goodnight.
    • weeeezzll, on 04/05/2008, -5/+6"Microsoft is giving Yahoo three weeks, and then promises to try and start a proxy contest to elect an alternative set of directors to the board."

      As if they have a choice. Based on that statement, I would say that MS is going to own Yahoo! one way or another. They should take the offer from MS, because if they have to go the long way around (which they intend on doing if needed) the share holders are going to pay the price.
    • jabberwolf, on 04/05/2008, -21/+3"LET'S" Who is US??
      You mean YOU?! because the OWNERS, being the stockholders, want MS to buy yahoo out.
      So what you want to detroy yahoo before they get aquired? You are a bucket of nipple chips - GAWD ~!!
      • tehknotte, on 04/05/2008, -0/+8lol nipple chips. still, dugg down for hysteria.
      • seanmc303, on 04/06/2008, -3/+3"So what you want to detroy yahoo before they get aquired?" LOL. BeerRules must be much more powerful than I thought. If BeerRules could DESTROY Yahoo (before the get aquired [giggle]), then BeerRules must has some major skills.
      • BeerRules, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2I can destroy yahoo..... All I have to do is squint really hard and yahoo will cease to exist, and no one will remember them. I just choose not to. Free will and all that stuff.
    • seanmc303, on 04/06/2008, -1/+2I'm with you BeerRules. I have been hoping this whole time that Yahoo is like that sweet young college tease that just leads you on and leads you on and then, nothing. Poor Microsoft would have a mean case of the blue balls if this happened.
    • talonstriker, on 04/06/2008, -0/+5As a yahoo user, I can't wait for the day that MS buys yahoo. I've been using Yahoo mail (too late to switch to gmail :-( )and various other yahoo services for over 3 years now, and I've steadily seen yahoo's quality go down the drain.
      For example, yahoo's spam filter. THe last two years, the spam filter was solid and I never got any spam despite having my personal spam filter turned off (I was eager for hot stock quotes and penis enhancements). Now, having my spam filter turned on, I get a ***** of spam everyday in my inbox. On top of that the spam is "domain key certified" (these get a free-pass by the spam filter I think) and from other yahoo accounts, which means that yahoo has the power of close down those accounts...but has shown no signs of doing so (I don't know how good MS is w/ spam, but I can't imagine it being worse than yahoo). Another feature is yahoo sports...the spam on that ***** is horrible as well as the clowns often misclassify stories, which simply wastes my time.
      I realize that various people oppose this just because it'll create imbalance in the search engine market...but who uses anything other than google?
      • BlackMask, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1I don't know what to say, and I'm not really as experienced in these matters as you already are, but I also get loads of unnecessary and non-sense crap in my yahoo inbox. it's gotten so ridiculous lately that I have stopped using Yahoo altogether except yahoo messenger and that too only because I have to talk to my family in a foreign country on Yahoo messenger every week and GTalk still doesn't have voice (or does it?)

        Anyways, anyone would agree that yahoo's services are going down the ***** slowly and steadily. Yahoo Answer! is probably the worst kind of joke I have ever witnessed online.
      • MrCoke, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1remember Microsoft claimed that the world would be free of spam by now. but instead of Microsoft, Google has done it with gmail.
    • MisterFreeze, on 04/06/2008, -2/+0This acquisition doesn't make sense for anyone. Microsoft is about to face a serious challenge in the OS space as Linux gains momentum in the desktop space, and in applications as Open Office and Google Apps gain traction. Yahoo cannot help Microsoft maintain its core assets, and it won't give Microsoft any serious traction in search. Yahoo has really done a ***** job of everything it's done lately but still has a respectable chunk of market share in search, news portal, email, IM that it could leverage if it could improve and extend its services.
  • pugsby, on 04/05/2008, -8/+22Clash of the Titans with Zeus-Google looking on...
  • TomPlansMedia, on 04/05/2008, -5/+11this is pretty much inevitable at this point
  • sekots29, on 04/05/2008, -5/+51dugg for the great pic! haha
    • carlskov, on 04/06/2008, -5/+0Steve Ballmer needs to get shot shot in the face
  • biggerx, on 04/05/2008, -10/+25Nice! Hostile takeover anyone?
    • wageslaven, on 04/05/2008, -20/+6No. Hostile takeovers are done by taking control of the firm by buying stock.

      This is no such thing.
      • clesch, on 04/05/2008, -6/+21yet.
      • weeeezzll, on 04/05/2008, -2/+17"Microsoft is giving Yahoo three weeks, and then promises to try and start a proxy contest to elect an alternative set of directors to the board."

        A takeover is considered "hostile" if:

        1. The board rejects the offer, but the bidder continues to pursue it, or
        2. The bidder makes the offer without informing the board beforehand
        • koanage, on 04/06/2008, -0/+41. A type of acquisition in which the target firm reacts negatively to the proposed acquisition is a/an:
          d. hostile takeover.

          answer is d, according to this test I just took.

        • deadlift, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1@koanage

          What literature do you read to learn this?
          • koanage, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1Understanding Business Strategy: Concepts and Cases, 1st Edition
            R. Duane Ireland | Robert E. Hoskisson | Michael A. Hitt
            ISBN-10: 032428246X | ISBN-13: 9780324282467 | 576 Pages | Casebound | © 2006 | Published
    • noahgelman, on 04/06/2008, -1/+2can anyone plz explain how a proxy contest works, and how the alternative board of directors would function and everything? ty
  • ch1ck3n3, on 04/05/2008, -21/+8will the e-mail addresses be @hothoomail.com?
  • bonlebon, on 04/05/2008, -26/+5Yahoo is being naive if they think M$ won't be their masters in the close future.

    It's all about BUSINESS. Moral, ethics and values have no room in the corporate world.
    • HonoredMule, on 04/05/2008, -7/+16Whew. Glad I'm not YOUR corporate world.
      • HonoredMule, on 04/05/2008, -2/+9*ahem* Glad I'm not /in/ your corporate world.

        There must be a way to blame that on the comment system.
    • Deviate, on 04/05/2008, -2/+7Got it. You think you're totally rad and cut-throat in business. But when you manage to get a 15 minute break from flipping burgers at Wendy's, you should probably do some research and learn that values and ethics play a large part in the corporate world. Investors have a significant response to corporations that take the moral high-road and other companies prefer to do business with one's that are in good ethical standing. Corporations that have poor ethics, values, and morals are unstable.
    • bonlebon, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1Two examples:

      IBM and their connection with the Third Reich. Years in business: 97.

      Exxon Mobil and the Exxon Valdez PREVENTABLE disaster. Years in business 97.

      Nice try lobbyists, but not enough.
      • HonoredMule, on 04/06/2008, -1/+1Wow, two whole examples.

        I'm sure, of course, that their success is totally rooted in their evilness, and that they were evil throughout their existence, even from birth.
  • Shadowgamers, on 04/05/2008, -7/+2I wonder if a little EA is going to rub off on Microsoft...
    • Khast, on 04/05/2008, -3/+1Microsoft might actually do well having Madden sponsoring Windows..
  • Craga89, on 04/05/2008, -6/+17"...An open letter to Yahoo's board of directors stating in no uncertain terms that the 62% premium over Yahoo's closing price on January 31, 2008 was more than fair"

    Now that's a threat if I've ever seen one. Sensationalist headline anyone?
    • Craga89, on 04/05/2008, -2/+3Yup... commented without reading the article again... gonna burn in hell for that... *head asplodes*
    • init100, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1They also threatened with a hostile takeover attempt, as well as doing what they can to replace the current board of Yahoo. That isn't a threat?
  • YodaJones, on 04/05/2008, -21/+6Actually I have decided I want Microsoft to buy Yahoo. They both suck so bad it might finally be the end of them both.
  • breaklaw, on 04/05/2008, -13/+8That's what you get for going public. Yeah you get a boatload of capital, but then this can always happen. Microsoft won't give up, just like Oracle never gives up on a company they want. Honestly I hope they get it done soon. I'm stating to get tired of Google. You can't trust them anymore.
    • santaliqueur, on 04/05/2008, -6/+3Why can't you trust them? You reading too many sensationalist headlines?
  • Compserd, on 04/05/2008, -8/+3Wow, this is going to be very interesting indeed!
  • Hyperinsane, on 04/05/2008, -16/+7I don't see how its possible to FORCE a business to sell itself to you. If I had a chocolate bar and someone offered me a million pounds for it, its still my decision whether to sell it or not.
    • mobiledescent, on 04/05/2008, -2/+24when your a public company...it is up to the shareholders to decide what happens with "YOUR" company. It no longer belongs to you it belongs to all those shareholders
    • dremspider, on 04/05/2008, -1/+17You are missing what it means to be a public company. To use your analogy it is like I ask you to take care of my candy bar, I even pay you to take care of it. Someone says to us I will give you a million pounds, and you don't want to sell it, but it isn't yours. It is my decision to sell it, because it is my candy bar.

      The thing that makes this analogy a little hairy is I am not one person, I am actually thousands if not millions of people who each own a tiny share of a company. The CEO and the board do not want to sell the company (you in the analogy), but it's shareholders who own the company may want to as they will get money from the deal as their stocks shoot up. The shareholders elect the members of the board who appoint a CEO, so if the stockholder are unhappy with the decision, they fire the whole board, hire people who are interested in selling and then let the deal go through. So while it is the decision of the board, the board can change if the stockholders aren't happy. This is why Microsoft is going after shareholders, because inevitably they are who decides the fate of the company.

      The problem with this arrangement is that most of the shareholders are all about short term goals. It used to be you bought stock, and you invested in it for years. You usually held on to it until you retired. Even mutual funds and corporate investors held onto stocks for a long time, therefore they were interested in long term effects of their decisions. Today's investor doesn't give a rip about the company. Anything that can artificially inflate a stock they are happy with so that they can dump the stock ASAP. This is really what is going on with this deal.

      The board thinks this deal is terrible and will lead to the death of the company and it's assets (including it's employees). Microsoft is hoping to convince the shareholders that it is a good deal for them, not the company to let this go through. If the investors agree they elect to fire the board who appoints the new CEO, who lets the deal go through. This will cause the stock price to jump as Microsoft's money gets dumped into buying the stock as all the investors jump ship and take their cash.

      Like it or love it, this is how capitalism works at it's finest.
      • BlackMask, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1holy awesome explanation man! until i read this post of yours, i knew jack-squat about this whole deal, the definition of a 'public' company and stuff like that.
      • mbraynard, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1Your reasoning is somewhat incorrect here. The shareholders are all about long-term goals - specifically the long term growth of their own networth. It is the management and their heavily perked board of directors who are most interested in the short term here - specifically not losing their jobs, power, or prestige. Given they have mostly ground the company into dust, where they are right now is as good as it's going to get for them.

        For MS to act this way, it is essentially saying that IT has more faith in the future of Yahoo (or MS Yahoo) than the investors do.
    • dremspider, on 04/05/2008, -9/+1You are missing what it means to be a public company. To use your analogy it is like I ask you to take care of my candy bar, I even pay you to take care of it. Someone says to us I will give you a million pounds, and you don't want to sell it, but it isn't yours. It is my decision to sell it, because it is my candy bar.
      The thing that makes this analogy a little hairy is I am not one person, I am actually thousands if not millions of people who each own a tiny share of a company. The CEO and the board do not want to sell the company (you in the analogy), but it's shareholders who own the company may want to as they will get money from the deal as their stocks shoot up. The shareholders elect the members of the board who appoint a CEO, so if the stockholder are unhappy with the decision, they fire the whole board, hire people who are interested in selling and then let the deal go through. So while it is the decision of the board, the board can change if the stockholders aren't happy. This is why Microsoft is going after shareholders, because inevitably they are who decides the fate of the company.
      The problem with this arrangement is that most of the shareholders are all about short term goals. It used to be you bought stock, and you invested in it for years. You usually held on to it until you retired. Even mutual funds and corporate investors held onto stocks for a long time, therefore they were interested in long term effects of their decisions. Today's investor doesn't give a rip about the company. Anything that can artificially inflate a stock they are happy with so that they can dump the stock ASAP. This is really what is going on with this deal.
      The board thinks this deal is terrible and will lead to the death of the company and it's assets (including it's employees). Microsoft is hoping to convince the shareholders that it is a good deal for them, not the company to let this go through. If the investors agree they elect to fire the board who appoints the new CEO, who lets the deal go through. This will cause the stock price to jump as Microsoft's money gets dumped into buying the stock as all the investors jump ship and take their cash.
      Like it or love it, this is how capitalism works at it's finest.
    • dremspider, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2Doh.... Digg seized up on me when I tried to get rid of all the space, but apparently it posted two.....
  • Scottievm, on 04/05/2008, -9/+48Yahoo: i need bout a tree-fiddy
    Microsoft: I ain't givin no tree-fiddy you god damn loch ness monster, go get your own money!
  • rmw132, on 04/05/2008, -6/+14If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em.
  • endustry, on 04/05/2008, -10/+5Yahoo! is a diminishing commodity and its proprietors would be wise to sell while they can. After years of me-too products and a business model still stuck in the "If you brand it, they will come" mentality, the internet has finally caught up. Create and innovate or STFU. Microsoft is paying for a few useful parts and the right to slap a Yahoo! logo on stuff. Period.
  • Misinformant, on 04/05/2008, -11/+5I'll never understand corporate greed.

    At what point have they made enough money?
    • lerch, on 04/05/2008, -1/+4It is called capitalism.
    • wellyuk, on 04/06/2008, -1/+1Wow.. any good reason Misinformant's comment was buried?
      • Misinformant, on 04/06/2008, -1/+0Fortune 500s are prowling digg to monitor the ignorant lesser middle class peons
      • adminmatt, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1misinformant is just mad because he doesn't have that kind of wealth. if he owned 20% of yahoo I'm sure he'd be singing a different tune because money is what makes the world go around. no avoiding it.
        • Misinformant, on 04/06/2008, -1/+0Did I seem mad to you? I was making a joke but I guess that bounced off your thick dome.
          • adminmatt, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1yeah. it's a joke now that you look like a douche bag. riiiiiiight
      • BlackMask, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1i just digg him up but seems like for some unknown reason he would continue to get buried :(
      • mbraynard, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1Because his opinion is dumb. Corporations re-organizing for greater efficiency is a good thing. If this is the definition of greed, Gecko was right.
    • init100, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1"At what point have they made enough money?"

      Never.
  • diggit08, on 04/05/2008, -8/+6This should get really interesting. I sincerley hope that Yahoo denies them, and they start to get the shareholders to turn on the board.

    This is like the time Lex used the workers in his factories to buy LuthorCorp and turn it into Lex Corp.

    /sarcasm
  • Awspire, on 04/05/2008, -18/+5Personally, I feel Microsoft might soon be the major search engine of choice. Microsoft's image search has improved dramatically, their map engine is superior to all, their beta toolbar has some very interesting features, not to mention their browser and Instant Messenger has an immense market share. Plus, on top of all this, they have their Sky drive service up and running doling out 5GB of free on line storage. If they ever add pop to their Hotmail, then I'd say they would soon dominate all online services.
    • nietzche, on 04/05/2008, -4/+3i can't say i know anything about you're saying, but wtf is with the burial? no one has even commented.
      • Awspire, on 04/05/2008, -5/+4It's simple. Here on Digg (with some users... OK most) Microsoft = Bad. Though, what I can never understand, all the services mentioned above are given out by Microsoft for FREE. Does Microsoft ever get any recognition for that, of course not. Because they're a commercial developer. Who, by the way, have created an industry for hundreds of thousands of people to employ.
        • vidorian, on 04/05/2008, -3/+2You forgot that most believe MS was built on stolen technology. Even though that tech had not been patented.
        • adminmatt, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1*pro apple comments to add to the digg clichés*
    • Bulletbillx, on 04/05/2008, -1/+2Hotmail also needs to add fowarding like gmail has and better spam detection. then i could foward all my hotmail mail to my gmail acct. Also i think microsofts interfaces especially in hotmail suck in some aspects compared to googles interface. So that needs work too. MS still has the 2nd best site imo after google though. Yahoo is just failure any more and the other search engines/portals/webmail sites tend to not even be worth talking about.
    • quikboy, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2While Awspire's comment was a bit too out of the sky sounding (dominate?), some of what he says is true.

      The technology behind their image and video search really can't be beat by any of the other guys. Live Toolbar allows users to create "buttons" to add on the toolbar, along with other search engines. And WLM happens to be the best IM client there is.

      But I guess Digg users just love to hate for absolutely no reason, so I guess mine and his comment will be buried more and more. :(
      • Awspire, on 04/06/2008, -1/+1"But I guess Digg users just love to hate for absolutely no reason"

        It's either about being a mindless trend whore, or having a steak in another technological ideology, which you feel so insecure about its future you simply need to shamelessly bash the competition.

        I don't mean to come off sounding like a MS fanboy, though I will praise those I feel are deserving, but I wont mindlessly support some company out of peer pressure. At the moment, I prefer Google's search engine to Microsoft's, but Googles other services I have no real desire to use. One thing I do realize, is that none of these companies are actually offering a "free" service, they are getting paid via advertisements, and the competition is to offer as many free, quality services to attract the largest visitor base, whether its Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, or whoever.
  • rippin1700, on 04/05/2008, -11/+6Well *****, now I have to go to gmail to replace my email and godaddy or Register for my domains. I foresee a spammers paradise if the Microhoo buyout goes through.
    • adminmatt, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1what are you basing this on? opinion? yeah
  • OffPiste, on 04/05/2008, -6/+1Purely Haitian, my comrade, snow plows a-coming as well.
  • SeveringGecko, on 04/05/2008, -10/+5This is just another example of how much of an idiot and a jerk that Steve Ballmer. I mean watch some of his presentations he screams and yells and jumps around like an animal! What was microsoft thinking? First Vista disaster, then this?
    • max777, on 04/06/2008, -1/+0What vista disaster! seriously what is wrong with it! Find me a better PVR than vista media center!
  • oldexplorer, on 04/05/2008, -10/+2Could we get the Cloverfield monster to bite Ballmer in half? Pretty please?
  • pkaoc, on 04/05/2008, -11/+6i love the first 5 words . " no more mister nice microsoft"
    when were they ever nice?? . they've always been bullies. like the guy at the poker table with the most money
    • adminmatt, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1hellz yeah! bill gates isn't one of the worlds biggest philanthropists! he's just an *****!

      /sarcasm
  • kreatre2007, on 04/05/2008, -9/+2Maybe Yahoo! doesn't want to be purchased. *****' Microsoft can't take no for an answer. Buying Yahoo! would be disasterous -- for the customers.
  • jabberwolf, on 04/05/2008, -8/+3IT ISNT HOSTILE !! -
    Not until MS starts to easily buy up stockholder shares, then ( by definition) it will be a hostile take over.
  • lineweight, on 04/05/2008, -6/+1To quote The Dude, "Let me just get my checkbook."
    • carlskov, on 04/06/2008, -0/+0Actually I'm quite sure thast he says "let me just go find a vending machine"
      • Philoushka, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1Actually, I am very sure that he says, "Uh, I'm just gonna go find a cash machine"
  • uziko, on 04/05/2008, -10/+6don't give in to the darkside yahoo
    • MarkTaiwan, on 04/06/2008, -1/+1they are already on the dark side...
  • Enron1985, on 04/05/2008, -7/+8Microsoft's hatred for Google drives them to do things like this.
  • tekiek, on 04/05/2008, -7/+2You have to give M$ props for not letting its ego get into buisness
  • eminiguy, on 04/05/2008, -11/+6Yahoo is not for sale. It's a good company. Why else would MS want to buy it?

    I am rooting for Yahoo. I know they are doing well from those on the inside.

    Go Yahoo! Slap the bastardly MS!
    • mbraynard, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2All publicly traded companies are always up for sale. If Yahoo doesn't like it, it can go private.
    • matt.rubin, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1because micrsoft is 3rd in searches while yahoo is 2nd and they wan tto compete with google. This would give them that chance
  • Aidenf77, on 04/05/2008, -7/+2I kinda figured no meant no. Why is MS all up in Yahoo's business? If Yahoo doesn't want to merge then leave well enough alone MS. But instead, now MS is threatening to oust the board of directors (or at least bypass them) and go directly to Yahoo's shareholders. I guess now we'll see if the board is really in line with the will of the people they represent.
  • kingUssop, on 04/05/2008, -9/+4Yahoo still exists? What for?
  • agentlame, on 04/05/2008, -7/+3They missed one of the better comments in the letter:
    "If we are forced to take an offer directly to your shareholders, that action will have an undesirable impact on the value of your company from our perspective which will be reflected in the terms of our proposal."
    ACT NOW! FINAL OFFER!!!
  • dbldwn, on 04/05/2008, -8/+3This is win/win. Yahoo's shareholders get some money out of a dying company, and geeks like us get to watch Ballmer make an ass out of himself. Again. When it's all over, Microsoft will once more demonstrate that they've turned "really bad ideas and even worse products" into a business model. Only time will tell whether it's sustainable.
    • Lazydriver, on 04/05/2008, -1/+2Exactly.

      How ***** stupid is Microsoft to buy a sinking ship that'll be made worse with them owning it?

      What happened to creating stuff in-house? They should have a rule similar to Google's: 1/5th the time you can develop whatever the hell you want, or, rather, all of the time.
  • PueSi, on 04/05/2008, -8/+5Buy Yahoo already,I want to see Microhoo Live vs Google. Google search doesn't cut it anymore for me.
  • daxsymbiont, on 04/05/2008, -6/+1BRINGIT OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!

    ..was what I'd say if I was a big corporation threatened by MS.
  • catachip, on 04/05/2008, -6/+5Question: How long before it's Windows Live Mail for Yahoo, Windows Live Flickr, and Windows Live Messenger for Yahoo?

    ... since Microsoft loves to brand everything it owns with the name of it's operating system, even when it's cross platform web apps.
  • tuzziel, on 04/05/2008, -7/+2Ballmer, the world is watching you, show us that you are the #1 ruthless CEO in the business, go hostile for god sake. Your shareholders elected you to be an attack dog, so act like one.
  • law1ess, on 04/05/2008, -3/+3Resistance is futile.
    • Berkana, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2No, resistance is voltage divided by current.
  • tuzziel, on 04/05/2008, -5/+3Microsoft is buying the brand here, not the technology. They want to tap into the exposure that Yahoo! has. Yahoo technology is pretty much inferior from the MSFT point of view. The Yahoo tech department will "go" soon after MSFT takes over.
  • wiretapped, on 04/05/2008, -6/+2"Who gives a *****?"
  • ilmor, on 04/05/2008, -6/+4Why the bad comments about Vista? I have it and love it. I hope the Yahoo price rises!!
  • gilbitron, on 04/05/2008, -4/+3If Microsoft stopped writing such crappy software maybe they wouldn't need to buy other brands to stay on top.
  • varmit, on 04/06/2008, -3/+4And the open response: NUTS!!!
  • DestroyFascism, on 04/06/2008, -2/+1I guess they can afford 44 billion if you write a new os that is the same as the old (aside from bling configurations) and prevent almost all versions of past M$ software running on it...

    I think they call that going in for the kill...(otherwise known as hijacking)
    • max777, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1Vista is not the same OS, most of the core components where re written for security, there is a new audio system that gives you fantastic audio even under 99% CPU useage etc etc etc just because your too dumb to know what has changed dont asume nothing has changed
  • marthaphoebe, on 04/06/2008, -1/+2i work for yahoo and now very sad
  • Spoomeister, on 04/06/2008, -4/+2Proof positive that Microsoft Live Search - hell, MSFT Live stuff in general - blows.
    • quikboy, on 04/06/2008, -1/+3Um, have you even used it. I don't like MS, but all their Live stuff in general does NOT blow.

      Image and Video search are far superior than any other on the web. Why not try it yourself to see why? http://live.com/

      You'll be surprised. :)
  • stinkypyper, on 04/06/2008, -1/+2This will be interesting technically is if it happens. I attended a conference where the top lecturer was a big time engineer at yahoo. Everything there is open source, they especially use a lot of PHP and MySQL. Personally, I will hate it, I think the finest browser side API on the net (YUI) is made by them. This is basically Microsoft admitting defeat on the internet.
  • FearFactory, on 04/06/2008, -1/+2I thought Microsoft Live Search was going to be the shizzle???
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