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Steve Ballmer letter to Jerry Yang withdrawing offer

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  • OBKenobi, on 05/04/2008, -1/+3Jerry Yang is my new hero.
  • lostlyrics, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2indeed 'withdrawing offer' is highly sophisticated semantics
    when everyone cAn call it 'a miserably squeazed tail' as well :D

    http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_man_says_Microso ...
  • MrViklund, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1What is that picture doing there LOL...
  • MrViklund, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2Get a clue.
  • dig1x, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2Precisely, I have a feeling a shareholder vote may take place. YHOO (before this quarter where they cooked the books to make them look good...) was failling in a big big way. MSFT's offer was their last best hope before a big face-plant (IMO).

    YHOO really f'ed up here.
  • lostlyrics, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2:D By failing to reach an agreement with us, you and your
    stockholders have left significantly virtual values on the table. ?
  • marthaphoebe, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2"By failing to reach an agreement with us, you and your stockholders have left significant value on the table."
  • inactive, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1Yeah, considering the next step is for the stock price to plummet as the fast buck speculators leave the stock, then the corporate raiders will step in, beak up the company and then Microsoft gets the bits of the company that they were interested in, and they can discard the rest. The big loser here is Open source, because those are probably the elements of Yahoo, that Microsoft was uninterested in.

    So rather than those people leaving their jobs because, "OMG! we might have to work for Microsoft!!!" now they will be leaving their jobs because the corporate raiders will be ending their financing, because there is no easy way to monetize OS software.

    I will grant you this will take a couple of years to happen. but the Yahoo brand just went terminal.
  • n0odles, on 05/04/2008, -2/+2Microsoft Vista sales are a failure, it can't afford to go into another Antitrust Case.

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