Microsoft to Purchase Yahoo?

[Eric5h5]

Then M$ would probably come up with something like "IMTUBED"...

The traditional Microsoft name, as dull and unimaginative as they come, would be "Microsoft Television". Although lately I have to admit they've been getting a little more creative (Zune, Silverlight).

--Eric

 

[shigzeo]

There goes my email

ive been enjoying yahoo.co.uk's email for over 4 or 5 years and find the new beta to be the best ever... too bad microsoft will get their hands on it and look like hotmails.... bother

 

[CoreWeb]

The traditional Microsoft name, as dull and unimaginative as they come, would be "Microsoft Television". Although lately I have to admit they've been getting a little more creative (Zune, Silverlight).

--Eric

I wouldn't really call "Zune" and "Silverlight" creative... they kind of are, but really, the just sound like names which were made to attract hype. And you know, when hype comes quickly, it goes quickly as well. Especially when it comes to somewhat cheesy sounding names.

Speaking of hype... has anyone else been feeling "it"? That the iPod's hype is going down? I hope the iPhone will be a suitable replacement for hype (though its hype also comes alarmingly fast. But at least iPhone doesn't sound quite as in-your-face-look-at-me-trying-to-be-cool as Zune.)


And Microsoft buying Yahoo - that would be a sign of dark days for the world. Both companies seem sub-par. (I must be too used to Apple - though I'm not that big a fan of Google (don't dislike it or anything)). Both companies are too huge. Combining them together would be very bad.

 

[dsnort]

Meh, Yahoo used too be "THE BOMB", now it's more like "the bam". I don't see where M$ can improve this product beyond where it is

 

[SiliconAddict]

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Wasn't FREE PUSH from YAHOO MAIL part of the collabortaion deal with Apple and the iphone?, just as Google maps was???

If I am correct, and if MS were to buy Yahoo, Apple would be at MS YAHOO's mercy... correct?

food for thought...

Woopty do. Apple could provide free e-mail in a heartbeat. It not that expensive to setup or even manage if they wanted to. Its just that Apple is cheap as heck.

 

[surferfromuk]

It's proof that under Blamer M$'s Standard Operating Procedure has not changed.

Furthermore, all those Vista coders have got to have something to keep them busy.

Should keep both companies REALLY confused and totally distracted for the next 5 years whilst they 'figure out' how to 'integrate' Yahoo's $50 billion dollar website into the next generation of M$ 'copy-tech' they call MSN plus.

Should create a whole new generation of people who distrust M$. Should create a large hole in innovation for lots of startups to occupy...

Hoorah for M$ getting even bigger and more stupid...first new product will be a yahootube running exlusively on 'silverlight'..

In the meantime Apple keeps it's tight focus on providing real world cutting edge technology solutions that provide an exquisite physical and virtual bridge between our digital media and it's real world application.

 

[msandersen]

How ironic; We'll end up with two great internet companies: Google, whose motto is "Do no Evil", and Yahoo, whose motto will soon be "Do Evil" .
They already had a head-start in China giving names of dissidents to the authorities.

 

[phatspider]

Some say this rumor is not true :

http://transportation.engadget.com/2007/05/04/microsoft-and-yahoo-no-deal/

 

[angelwatt]

Yahoo will regret it if they do

It wouldn't be a smart thing for Yahoo to do this. I have multiple accounts with Yahoo and if they join MS I'll be shutting down those accounts immediately and take my money elsewhere.

 

[notsofatjames]

That's my take. For years, my primary email's a Yahoo! address (I reluctantly pay the stupid POP annual fee because I don't want to go through the hassle of switching email addresses). Meanwhile, I found the Hotmail of years ago to be horrible, and that's before I switched to Macs.

If Microsoft swallows Yahoo!, it might be time for me to get a Gmail address...

I use yahoo as my primary mail, and I dont pay for pop access. It's free. Well at least here in the UK it is, and ive been signed up for pop access for years. Its the main reason i chose yahoo over hotmail, (before gmail sprung up), because pop access was free.

 

[aafuss1]

I could see them partnerning for Flickr intergration with Digital Image. And Apple is yet allow Yahoo! contacts in iChat-MS already does this.

 

[Cult Follower]

Yahoo is too smart to let something like that happen. I'm sick of microsoft trying to rule my life.

 

[twoodcc]

i wouldn't like to see this happen. mainly b/c i just don't like microsoft

 

[MikeTheC]

While I certainly appreciate the "It'll scuttle Yahoo in the long run" sentiment expressed here, mergers are one of the big "things I f-----g hate" bugaboos in the business world. It just perpetuates the trend of setting an anti-competitive precident.

This leaves us all worse off, not better, Yahoo's quality (or lack thereof) notwithstanding.

 

[a456]

What if Apple were to takeover Microsoft? Things would really get interesting then.

 

[PlaceofDis]

What if Apple were to takeover Microsoft? Things would really get interesting then.

impossible. not to mention creating a monopoly so it wouldn't happen ever.

 

[Dustman]

What would M$ do with yahoo?