Microsoft offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo. | The Coffeehouse

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

eagle wrote:

PaoloM wrote:
So eagle, that interview of yours for Microsoft's CEO position didn't pan out after all, eh?

If Jerry Yang successfully holds off this takeover bid, the MSFT Board may be looking for a new CEO.

Sure...

eagle

What if every Yahoo shareholder took the cash, it would be like a run on the bank.

....and then after paying $31 a share for Yahoo, MSFT drops to 22!

Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

This is really all about taking market share from Google.

evildictaitor
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eagle wrote:
What if every Yahoo shareholder took the cash, it would be like a run on the bank.

....and then after paying $31 a share for Yahoo, MSFT drops to 22!

It's payment half in cash and half in shares. So they can't all go for the cash. Only half of them can.

eagle

....and what if they all want the cash and what if they all walk away?

esoteric
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Wazoo! Significan't news, although I can't claim to use Yahoo or any of it's services (except flickr, passingly.) What's the Yahoo crown jewel - It's search engine, or simply its accumulation of popular ad-driven sites?

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

So this is really an admission that MS can't compete with google; and if Yahoo accepts it's an admission their restructing failed and they can't compete with anyone.

Makes me wonder what would happen to the cross over products, 360 versus spaces, yahoo mail versus hotmail, and what happens to flickr?

Rossj

blowdart wrote:
Makes me wonder what would happen to the cross over products, 360 versus spaces, yahoo mail versus hotmail, and what happens to flickr?

Don't Yahoo use a lot of OSS? I wonder if Microsoft might throw the stuff it doesn't desperately need - rather than repeat the Hotmail thing again.

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

Irony.

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

jason818_253.33
Yippi skippy

You say the Interweb is important?

LaBomba
Summer

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jamie?

evildictaitor
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eagle wrote:
....and what if they all want the cash and what if they all walk away?

If they all walk away, then Microsoft doesn't get the percentage they need to do a takeover. If they don't sell up, Microsoft won't give them the 60-something percent premium though either.

If the board recommends to their shareholders that they should sell to Microsoft, then the big shareholders of Yahoo will sell up, and Microsoft will gain control. If they choose not to, then Microsoft can go ahead and buy the shares anyway, and when they reach the golden number, take over the business anyway (a hostile takeover), or more likely, they'll go away for another year.

Vasudev

Google reacts to Microsoft Yahoo bid - Microsoft replies

stevo_
Human after all

Google left their self a bit open there by twisting their concern of Microsoft gaining more search market on them into Microsoft being a big monopoly.. I'm really glad the response was 'Well, to be fair.. you are the ones the monopolize Internet search, and here's the indisputable truth'.

rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure

**sniff,sniff** Whats that smell coming from Google? That odor, its familiar, I smell it from Red Hat, Novell and the FSF... Its called fear.

Ray6

rjdohnert wrote:
**sniff,sniff** Whats that smell coming from Google? That odor, its familiar, I smell it from Red Hat, Novell and the FSF... Its called fear.

Actually from Google, it smells a lot more like hypocrisy.

rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure

No thanks, you need it more than anyone in here so have a great day and dont forget to shower along with it. Deodorant can cover up the smell of sh$%t but it cant wash it away.

creditcard wrote:

rjdohnert wrote:**sniff,sniff** Whats that smell coming from Google? That odor, its familiar, I smell it from Red Hat, Novell and the FSF... Its called fear.

Yeah yeah, right, FSF, RedHat, yeah, here is some deodorant:

http://www.degreedeodorant.com/

Make sure to use it ~~twice~~ three times daily. Please, for the sake of all of us!

odujosh
Need Microsoft SUX now!

Lloyd_Humph wrote:
I doubt it will be converted to Live, after all, people joined Yahoo because they liked Yahoo. MS wouldn't want to jeopardize that.

Hopefully Yahoo Mail will not go from "Unlimited" to 5GB....

Is there any realistic difference. If your approaching 5 GB its time for some drastic pruning or some better file storage method. I have every email I ever got in Gmail since its very early beta days. No where close to 1 GB even.

I think beyond the business gain for microsoft it really will have no effect on the search market. Really it is just Google taking a pot shot at Microsoft.

The response was rather clever. Point out the lack of market share brillant. Google just is afraid microsoft can make the yahoo portal not suck.

Ray6

creditcard wrote:

rjdohnert wrote:**sniff,sniff** Whats that smell coming from Google? That odor, its familiar, I smell it from Red Hat, Novell and the FSF... Its called fear.

Yeah yeah, right, FSF, RedHat, yeah, here is some deodorant:

http://www.degreedeodorant.com/

Make sure to use it ~~twice~~ three times daily. Please, for the sake of all of us!