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: : : : : : :¯’’~~~~~~’’’ : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : | : : : : : : : : : - inactive, on 04/12/2008, -1/+17I am reminded of the Time Warner/AOL merger. Everyone was sure it would ruin the Internet and the world would end because one company had so much sway over the entertainment/media/distribution arena. Instead, they fizzled and managed to turn AOL in to the joke of the industry with Time Warner skulking back in to the shadows to lick their wounds. I can't help but think that when one company that makes widgets purchases a company that makes sprockets, the sprockets suffer. Yahoo will lose it's market share big time if this merger happens. Good luck to both companies, I guess.
- Exhibitionist, on 04/12/2008, -9/+2240 billion dollars for a few crappy web pages that nobody ever visits. Fools!
- amdforever, on 04/12/2008, -1/+14Most appropriate use of "It's a trap".
Good job dude. - xjeffx, on 04/12/2008, -1/+11Please don't screw up flickr!
- tcpip4lyfe, on 04/12/2008, -0/+10You just wasted a lot of your time.
- perrym, on 04/12/2008, -0/+9http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedcut
enjoy :-) - niceyuk, on 04/12/2008, -4/+13They still wont compete with Google.
Two losers doesnt = 1 winner. - Shadowgamers, on 04/12/2008, -6/+14How long before a 'M$ SUCKS GRRR >:V' post?
Also ***** yes competition, it will be extremely interesting to see (if they do merge) the things that Yahoosoft do to be in competition with Google. - NerveBand, on 04/12/2008, -2/+9On a side note, does anyone know how WSJ creates those images of those people? I really like the style.
- inactive, on 04/12/2008, -0/+6is there really any mystery as to why microsoft wants yahoo?
- lamiaconfitor, on 04/12/2008, -6/+11Two sub-par technology conglomerates merging to be one giant bastion on mediocrity? Sweet thats like something... or something.
- tcpip4lyfe, on 04/12/2008, -3/+8As a Microsoft share holder, I'm wondering how this will affect my stock.
- niceyuk, on 04/12/2008, -1/+6How is reducing 3 competing companies down to two good for competition??
Yahoo's systems are mostly Unix based, Microsoft will spend years trying to integrate them and convert them to Windows servers, in the meantime Google and other companies will push even further ahead of Microsoft. - Mawds, on 04/12/2008, -2/+6Wait I haven't mentioned that "Admiral! We have enemy ships in sector 47!" yet.
- xjeffx, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3Remind me, how'd that go again?
- pw378, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3Hotmail + Yahoo! mail? Owning 90% of the webmail market is not anti-competitive?
MSN Messenger + Yahoo! chat? Owning 80% of the instant messaging market is not anti-competitive?
Said it before, I'll say it again... its not just about search market share.. Microsoft is waving their hands and saying "these are not the monopolies you are looking for..." - Shadowgamers, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3Unless the merger was going to produce something for almost free that would stunt competition with Google, no.
- Shadowgamers, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3GRR WHY DID YOU TAKE SO LONG JEEZ. >:V
- lamiaconfitor, on 04/12/2008, -0/+3its a great idea, but it will never happen. you are talking to broke ass techies.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 04/12/2008, -1/+4I hope they don't pull an AOL Time Warner, merge then let half of their properties wither and die due to lack of attention / consideration.
- gfunk84, on 04/12/2008, -2/+5A first I was opposed to this. Then I heard AOL was in talks to merge with Yahoo!
MS > AOL (doesn't say much) - Darph.Bobo, on 04/12/2008, -1/+3Microsoft doesn't know how to run their own company, let alone Yahoo!. I can't wait for it to happen, it will dissolve Microsoft's market cap by 50 billion in two years. Ballmer's always been colossal fool. Set your clock.
- vinnyvenus, on 04/12/2008, -1/+3This could end up like a Sprint/Nextel merger
- omaryak, on 04/12/2008, -0/+2It will be more interesting to see how many more takovers will be necessary for them to think they finally have a level playing field with Google. Competition isn't about the size of the company; it's the quality of your ideas. If you have the right ideas, the size of the company will follow. Or at least that's how it's supposed to work.
- ExRe, on 04/12/2008, -0/+2Aww, I was hoping they would act stupid until their stock prices fall off completely and Microsoft buys them up for less than 1/2 the initial price. That would have been rather funny, but it seems like they ruined it by growing a brain.
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2will this mean that yahoo chat will get rid of the sex bots? cuz if so Im all for it.
- carpespasm, on 04/12/2008, -0/+2I'll probably find another service for next time my flickr subscription renews if this deal goes through.
- HonoredMule, on 04/12/2008, -0/+2That drawing is without question the ONLY time Steve Ballmer has ever cut a figure that dared to evoke an air of nobility. If I were him, I'd have it framed in my living room.
- Rauby, on 04/12/2008, -10/+12No, please no.. Why Microsoft?
- NtroP, on 04/12/2008, -2/+4So... what happens to Zimbra? We're just about to implement. In a side-by-side test against Exchange it really put Exchange to shame. Exchange really embarrassed itself. Any bets MS kills it?
- Stonekeeper, on 04/13/2008, -0/+2I do
- peterinjapan, on 04/12/2008, -2/+4I *sold* all my Microsoft stock about three weeks before the buyout offer was announced. For one, I am a happy camper.
- sublimemm, on 04/12/2008, -1/+2I thought it was about having an OS that doesn't suck...
p.s. to the mac people out there, mac os is great, I just don't like the whole proprietary hardware part :) - fuzzynyanko, on 04/12/2008, -1/+2AOL Time Warner vs News Corp vs Microsoft... For some reason, I trust Microsoft the most out of those three, and that doesn't say much...
- YodaJones, on 04/12/2008, -2/+3I want this deal to happen so MS and Yahoo will both be spread so think they will break and hopefully die. We need to move on from Microsoft based technology, it's just an evolutionary matter.
- talonstriker, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1Damn I was hoping that it was photoshopped.
- Bamshackle, on 04/12/2008, -3/+4I don't really care. I never used Yahoo for anything except Fantasy Sports, and only use Microsoft products because there is little alternative. Sure I have a Mac but that doesn't count really since if I want to play any game besides WoW I have to run windows. My thoughts are as long as Microsoft doesn't screw up Yahoo Fantasy Sports than i don't care. What we are going to get is Hotmail with smiley faces.
- latova, on 04/12/2008, -1/+2MS has nothing to lose in this because they still own the OS market. Google has everything to lose because search and advertising are their biggest market. Googles share in search is not as large as MS' share in the OS market. Sure its great to have competition, but the second google loses that means MS is at top, and we know MS is evil. Just look at what they did with the browser war, they won and ended up making the abomination that is IE6 which has held back innovation on the internet for years.
- UKsHaDoW, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1Its more like ballmer vs steve
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1 I'm sick of M$ always buying up companies and wanting to be in every industry even remotely related to computers.
- Azerael, on 04/13/2008, -0/+1Would you prefer News Corp.?
- pw378, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1The funny thing is, they don't have to compete. Yahoo! and Microsoft both had a very successful partnership with Google for many years that made all of them tons of money. Microsoft and Yahoo! 'chose' to compete. They didn't need to and they didn't have to. Microsoft saw someone taking a fair share of the profits in the partnership with google and got green with envy (pun intended).
- inactive, on 04/13/2008, -1/+2Misleading title. Not likely at all. And you are so out of touch...
- TheLD, on 04/12/2008, -5/+5I don't think people are seeing the bigger picture .Yea, sure it's MS who are probably going to get Yahoo!, but this will drive up competition from Google which means we will get better services all round.
- swrv2000, on 04/14/2008, -0/+0Yes, the risk of sounding crazy weigh little compared to the gains that come from the evolution of ideas. Anybody that thinks throwing ideas out into the world is a waste of time is a slug. I'll buy in.
- SniperGX1, on 04/12/2008, -2/+2When their stock price shoots up and people make bank, will you then become a douchey camper?
- inactive, on 04/12/2008, -5/+5This is the only way they can compete with Google (both companies)
- Gavagai80, on 04/12/2008, -1/+1Unix is beside the point. Any reduction of the number of major opponents google faces makes it easier for google to win, and harder for innovation to happen.
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