Comments on: Yahoo's forcing Microsoft to play hardball

By: macdisser,bronx,new york

macdisser,bronx,new york — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:53 +0000

I am glad this didn't go through for different reasons. Yahoo was on the downturn. All they have is name recognition and $40b was too much to pay for that. Hotmail > yahoo mail, msn messenger > yahoo messenger msnlive search is way better than yahoo. should i go on?

By: Malik, London, UK

Malik, London, UK — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:01:25 +0000

Microsoft seems really keen and committed towards becoming the WalMart of the technology ibdustry, I wonder wether this aggressive attempt give birth to another ENRON.

By: robojocks, melbourne, victoria, australia

robojocks, melbourne, victoria, australia — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:24:38 +0000

i just read my comment. I need to check it before i post.

By: Chris - Baltimore, MD

Chris - Baltimore, MD — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:09:14 +0000

"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ship. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

Microsoft's been likened to them before, but this is taking it to a whole new level…

By: robojocks, melbourne, victoria, australia

robojocks, melbourne, victoria, australia — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:44:58 +0000

I think yahoo is going down hill. One reason is the chat.

Medicore coders are everywhere not only at microsoft. The problem is that the hardware manufacturers can interpret them wrong and then the write doggy code for there hardware. I think most of the issues are with pointers.

Yahoo seems not to be able to fix its chat messenger i get spam to the messenger. The easy way to fix it would be write a secret inhouse code.

Get rid of java.

In the short term is to make it impossible for the messenger people to message more then a certain number of people over a certain time.

By: Jimbo Marshalltown, IA

Jimbo Marshalltown, IA — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:30:31 +0000

Good for Yahoo!!! I hope Yahoo can keep the mediocre software coders out of their business. Micfosoft should develop a fast secure OS so the Billion or so computer users around the world would be compelled to upgrade… oh yeah they already did that with Vista didn't they.

By: gaetano marano - italy

gaetano marano - italy — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:29:30 +0000

at $40 per share, the Yahoo acquisition sounds (every day more) like an old, dear, 2000's "internet-bubble" bid: "too much money for the value"

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By: Mike White Washington DC

Mike White Washington DC — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:22:48 +0000

Yahoo! doesn't have much intellectual property, just a brand name and customer base. Is MSN so horribly broken that it couldn't be "fixed" for a figure substantially less than $40B? I find that very hard to believe. This deal is an obscene waste of shareholder value for Microsoft. Glad I don't own their stock.

By: Sean W. Wichita KS

Sean W. Wichita KS — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:21:28 +0000

All I can say is I left MSN because their webpage was to hard to navigate and their hotmail never seem to work correctly. I went to Yahoo email and I have never had a problem, been with Yahoo email since I was allowed 1 MB storage. If Microsoft take control of this website I am going to have a lot of forwarding to do. Hang in there Yahoo.

By: Mike S., St. Louis, MO

Mike S., St. Louis, MO — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:09:47 +0000

"Global brand" is interesting. Warren Buffet said he didn't know how to value these sort of stocks and I doubt anyone really does. Yahoo's "global brand" value is intangible but no doubt significant and it would disappear entirely if swallowed by Microsoft.

Unfortunately, the only people who would benefit from the takeover would be Yahoo shareholders (but not Microsoft shareholders or anyone who uses Yahoo or Microsoft).