[General] Microsoft offers $44.6B for Yahoo

[bashar abdullah]

Ewwwww... as you said Majed, I completely freezed hotmail from any use, and
anyone contacting me there is sending his email to a black hole. It's only
good for spam site registrations.

As to why they want to  acquire Yahoo, well I guess the Oracle-BEA
acquisition sparked the idea. They want to buy market share and power which
they could not earn by their hands. They want Google's head on a platter.
Ballmer vowed to do this, and he failed times and times. Hotmail was chosen
as one of worst 25 sites of the year last year. MSFT simply isn't fit for
the online battle, and they failed to acquire Google years back. Now they
wanna try with Yahoo. Great company, not doing as expected financially, best
target.

This is the type of acquisitions I REALLY HATE. Acquiring competitor means
affecting the whole market. Just like Oracle did, and now they come with two
"This is best thing" solutions, which I cant trust any as they are both
shaky right now. What's the end result? Oracle used to be tempted to support
different App Servers to sell it's enterprise applications, but now they
will be more motivated to tie it to their system.

Bill once saved Apple saying he needs competition to move forward (or maybe
some OS to copy from :P), and now he wants to kill the online battle. How
contradictory, and now unhealthy.

God have mercy on fate of all humanity!

I personally don't think it will go through though.

On Feb 1, 2008 10:51 PM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dude, that's not funny!
>
> The whole Internet will be disgusting! Well, more than it is now! I'm
> trying to get rid off the Hotmail account, so now MS is trying to take
> Yahoo! so I get to get rid off my Yahoo! account as well! :/
> What about all the Yahoo! services, shops, imaging galleries, ...etc.?
> And what will happen to MSN? After all these years of building MSN's
> network & reputation, will Yahoo! replace it?
>
> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft  MS's revenue was
> 51 billion .. so the buyout is like throwing most of the revenue out
> at Yahoo! which makes $6.7 billion
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo). Maybe MS is trying to get into
> the services that are being offered by Yahoo!
> One thing I know is that SanDisk has a deal with Yahoo! to serve MP3
> music over wireless and people can shop from Yahoo! using SanDisks's
> MP3 players. If Microsoft took Yahoo! I'm sure such a deal would hurt
> SanDisk (and maybe other vendors) as MS tries to force its Zune
> player.
>
> Here's a short list of what Yahoo! acquired Till Jan 2007 (date of
> article):
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_acquisition_pattern.php
> They sure put a threat to Google.
>
> I'd feel bad for Yahoo! employees, if that buyout ever went through
> and the EU agreed to it.
> --
>       Majed B.
>
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