BREAKING: Microsoft Proposes Yahoo! Takeover at $31 per Share (44 Billion $ Takeover)

[stomer]

This deal seems to be all about advertising and removing a competitor. I'm not sure MS cares about stuff like Flickr unless it's bringing in advertising revenue.
This move would be bad for current users of Yahoo! services as MS would make Yahoo! dogfood its technologies.

1. Yahoo! Mail. There's no point in having 2 mail services. POP access would be disabled. Yahoo mail users would eventually have to move over to Hotmail. If Yahoo! mail doesn't already run on MS technologies, then that would have to change.
2. Flickr. They'd probably keep that. Although they'd try to migrate the platform to MS technologies. You'd need to use your Windows Live account to sign-in though.
3 Yahoo! Messenger. That would go. At least the client would. No need to 2 messaging protocols. No need for 2 clients.

 

[rezatayebi]

Yahoo! is not doing very well right now. I`m sure they`ll accept the offer.

I don`t care about Google at all. I hope there won`t be any harm to Mac users cause I use a lot of Yahoo! services on my Mac.

 

[TumbleDryer]

Some one tell me what 'Saccharomyces cerevisiae' means and tell me how you found the information. One word will do. 😉

 

[johnmcboston]

I just hope that they don't mess with flickr. I could careless that they are aquiring Yahoo; just leave flickr as it is.

That's where I'm heading. Not a big fan of Y!, but Flikr is decent, and they've managed to hold Y!groups together after acquiring it. MS seems to break everything they touch.

 

[edesignuk]

Some one tell me what 'Saccharomyces cerevisiae' means and tell me how you found the information. One word will do. 😉

yeast. point?

 

[joefinan]

Is this showing on Mac Rumors because Apple seems to have quite an active relationship with Yahoo?

Would that relationship end?

 

[AdeFowler]

Some one tell me what 'Saccharomyces cerevisiae' means and tell me how you found the information. One word will do. 😉

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of budding yeast.

Googled 😉

 

[kanaka]

This is unfortunate. Yahoo! has the most traffic of any site in the world:
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global

I don't really want Microsoft owning all that traffic.

 

[137489]

YA-WHO?

Personally, I stopped using YAHOO when they started stinking and Google came along. Google's search engine is much better, their GMAIL product is superb. I have not found anything useful with YAHOO in years. The fact that Microsoft is bidding to take them over just puts Bills Gates statement into further motion, where he wants to transform the web and do away with HTML and come up with his own web language as a standard that only Microsoft IE can read.

I still say the future will be Apple and Google.

 

[joefinan]

This is unfortunate. Yahoo! has the most traffic of any site in the world:
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global

I don't really want Microsoft owning all that traffic.

That surprises me.

But look down the list and Google shows up about 40 times (.co.uk, .fr, .de etc), Yahoo only 3 times. I think Google traffic is actually higher than Yahoo.

 

[pmoeser]

Apple - Google merger anyone?

I've dreamed of that for some time.

Before the MacBooks and iPhone, I also thought there might be a bit of Sony involved (hardware, manufacturing plants, online applications, search, gaming platform and content.

M$? Who are they...

 

[Porco]

This is horrible... I got a free yahoo email account precisely because I hate hotmail... don't like Gmail either on principle.

 

[jpferreira]

I just hope that they don't mess with flickr. I could careless that they are aquiring Yahoo; just leave flickr as it is.

I totally agree!!

 

[macinfojunkie]

That surprises me.

But look down the list and Google shows up about 40 times (.co.uk, .fr, .de etc), Yahoo only 3 times. I think Google traffic is actually higher than Yahoo.

Don't forget U-Bend is @ No. 3, which in all but brand is GoogleTV.

 

[sfwalter]

Looks like I need to find a new email account.

 

[hvfsl]

All that will happen is MSYahoo will lose even more market share to Google because they will make such a mess of the takeover.

I am struggling to think of any takeovers like this that have gone well. Most seem to split after a while.

 

[stomer]

I totally agree!!

I disagree actually. Just imagine how much better Flickr would be if they were to rid Flickr of all that Flash and replace it with Silverlight! 😉

 

[jpferreira]

That's where I'm heading. Not a big fan of Y!, but Flikr is decent, and they've managed to hold Y!groups together after acquiring it. MS seems to break everything they touch.

you know king midas? not microsoft..

please don't mess with flickr, ozzie.. have fun with Y!Answers! 🙄

 

[AdeFowler]

This is unfortunate. Yahoo! has the most traffic of any site in the world:
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global

I don't really want Microsoft owning all that traffic.

Well according to this site it's Google. The Alexa stats are misleading to say the least.

 

[nagromme]

Now games on Yahoo that DO have Mac versions will say Windows-only, and Yahoo Messenger will lag way behind the Windows version 😡

Oh, wait, that's Yahoo now....

If you have to look for a silver lining: maybe the Mac BU can be of some use to Yahoo in supporting Mac users.

 

[TumbleDryer]

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of budding yeast.

Googled 😉

Excellent!

 

[countach]

MS have lost the plot

The only way MS can dig themselves out of their mess is to hire some geeks and start churning out exciting products. This takeover (I can hardly believe it is true it is so stupid) is like a cry for help. They'll burn a lot of cash and still be heading down.

 

[shamino]

Does it really matter? What can Microsoft do with Yahoo that they couldn't do with their MSN service?

They eliminate a competitor. Nothing more, nothing less.

I'm worried that they will start changing Yahoo's services to become Mac-incompatible. I'd really hate to have to give up my Yahoo mailbox and re-host my two mailing lists to a different server.

Embrace, extend and extinguish.

 

[kanaka]

Well according to this site it's Google. The Alexa stats are misleading to say the least.

That site has Yahoo at number 2. The main point is that Microsoft will gain a lot of traffic and power, as if they didn't have enough.

 

[pilotError]

What a shame.

I have to look for a new email account now 🙁