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February 5, 2008 3:25 PM PST
What's eating Microsoft? Everything
Business, finance, and tech worlds are abuzz with news of Microsoft's sudden proposal to Yahoo. It's not the first time Seattle's best has courted the Sunnyvale, Calif., company once touted as Silicon Valley's hottest Internet portal. To many, the buyout offer signals Microsoft's continuing woes in a playing field now dominated by freeware competitors and other rivals that have done Microsoft's end-user businesses longer or better.
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I should feel sad, but don't. It would be really scary if they did get it. Instead I can sleep peacefully.
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1. Yahoo's entire value is in their engineers, who don't use windows.
2. Borrowing money to make this work? How are you going to fund the 360's successor?
3. While you do move all of the Yahoo! websites to you inferior Windows servers, Google is going to leave you in the dust.
4. It took years to swallow Yahoo, and how many more Myspace and Facebooks are going to pop up before you can swallow them? It's a losing strategy.
Bad products and immoral dealings with the public are what Microsoft has sown and I'm looking forward to them reaping their final reward.
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Saith the penguin--
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I don't really care what happens here, because google is awesome, and with all their awesomeness, they deserve all the market share they get. As long as microsoft still has room to be a carnivorous jerk of a monopoly, the heat isn't up high enough.
I remember getting excited by Windows (3, 3.1, WfWG, NT, 95, 2000). I remember getting enthusiastic about ODBC. I can even remember liking the DOS shell on MS-DOS 4 or 5 (IIRC). I remember upgrading Windows 95 as early as I could. I still love my Natural keyboards and I seldom think of any other mouse brand, even when I am on a Mac.
Maybe Microsoft still has that flame buried somewhere deep inside.
Maybe not.
- by BrightPixel February 18, 2008 1:15 PM PST
- The death of Yahoo will be good news for Google. Internet users will be the poorer for it, but Microsoft won't get any richer. They will manage to make it unattractive then unusable, then they will try to charge for it.
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