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Re: MSFT and Yahoo: Nom nom nom

antje wilsch — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:20:36 -0000

I make my living off of MSFT products and use them extensively (.NET development). I am not afraid to be the first to criticize nor the first to praise even if it's not cool among my techie friends to defend them.

Microsoft needs to get it together. It needs to understand what it wants to be. It's like it's having a midlife crisis trying ot figure out what's next or "is this my life?" I think it needs some new meat gunning the ship, one who gets the web and where things are moving. They keep changing their name, putting out shoddy products that push even loyal users slowly away, and are all over the map. They have divisions that overlap work and don't even talk to each other. Way too many meetings, way too little QA, way too little user acceptance. Just b/c they put out some funny commericals on Vista doesn't mean that Vista doesn't give me all sorts of headaches.

Capturing yahoo is either going to make both of them irrelevant eventually by mucking it up, or if they could figure out how to use the best from both, get a consistent name branding thing going on, fix the flaws, then they can win.

Re: MSFT and Yahoo: Nom nom nom

mathewi — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:24:57 -0000

That's a fair point, Daniel -- maybe I should have said the Sun or the News of the World :-)

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bluelines — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:27:27 -0000

"If it had appeared in the Daily Mail or the Inquirer or something like that, then I would be dubious."

Ouch!! The Daily Mail is a pretty horrible newspaper, but I don't think they're known for poorly-sourced tech. stories. Fear-mongering about immigrants, single mothers and gays is more their line.

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alistairc — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:25:55 -0000

I'm gonna second that, Matthew. I hear rumblings from folks who should know about some sort of bastardized Yahoo/Facebook/Myspace frankenmerger, swirling around this week. Something's definitely in play -- and Icann is buying up Yahoo.

Facebook could do right by the ad platform (Overture) that Yahoo has built. Maybe the Three Gorillas will be Microsoft, Google, and Facemyhoo. Strange times call for strange measures.

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dccrowley — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:55:11 -0000

No offence to Kara Swisher but last time she said Jerry was staying. That turned out to be untrue. I just hope that MS buys all of Yahoo and not just search. Buying just search is going after Google. It will fail. Buying all of Yahoo will give them a real brand that they can focus all their live and msn activities into. Plus Yahoo has a bunch of great web 2.0 services that rock. I've posted about this earlier today

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howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:18:43 -0000

either way both companies continue to suck MAJOR balls. icahn is old and likely trading on inside info. liquidate the whole nbunch of these old farts

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JoeDuck — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:08:27 -0000

Although as you note there are probably deals in discussions now, but I think this rumor is both bogus and very interesting because this is a major, reputable paper that will create market movement if this is not flatly denied. If this is *false* one has to wonder if this is a stock manipulation attempt or perhaps just a reporter a bit to anxious for the big headline.

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Jorge Avila — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:05:53 -0000

Well, this or something else, but something is up.