Our response to Microsoft’s proposal
February 1, 2008 on 2:52 pm | In News |
From the Yahoo! Yodel Corporate Blog:
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Microsoft made an unsolicited proposal to acquire Yahoo! yesterday evening. Since then, we’ve gotten quite a number of questions about what this means for Yahoo!. Right now our board of directors is evaluating the proposal and looking at all of our strategic alternatives, including maintaining Yahoo! as an independent company.
A review process like this is fluid and can take quite a bit of time, so while there’s not much we can say right now, we did want to refer you to this brief FAQ for more information.
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Thanks,
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Cool! I was thinking about this today. I know it’s too early to talk about it, but I was also thinking how this could affect us, users of Yahoo! services. I guess we’ll have to wait for a while to get the answer to that question.
Looking forward to seeing what the response’s going to be like
Comment by Filé — February 1, 2008 #
I am a Huge Fan of yahoo! But you guyz merging with Microsoft wont be easy to digest. But if good things can come out of it, then go ahead! we would support you either ways! Been your fan, will be your Fan
Comment by Krish — February 1, 2008 #
I am all for it if it beats out goggle!
just please make sure it is also
good for the people who use and
love your product!
(yahoo messenger yahoo messenger for vista)
Thanks yahoo team! (all of ya)
Comment by king819 — February 1, 2008 #
Hehe
This means:
NO more Yahoo! Messenger for Mac
NO more Yahoo! Widgets for Mac
NO more support for Safari in Yahoo! Mail
and so on. . . yaay.
Yes, I’m exaggerating, but I’m not that far off either. It happened before with other faithful mac companies that were bought by Micro something.
Comment by Lucky — February 1, 2008 #
So does that mean the yahoo vista messenger?
Comment by Daniel — February 1, 2008 #
What does it mean for people that can only get yahoo but not msn sites?Hope you plan to buy us all updated computers.Some if us are disabled and live on limited income.We volunteer our time in groups to not only help ourself but, others oo.
Comment by icyelene read — February 1, 2008 #
I guess we can kiss chat goodbye. Microsoft doesn’t want anything it can’t firmly control.
Comment by Roger — February 1, 2008 #
Is a good move for both but how it will mix yahoomail with hotmail?
Comment by kata — February 1, 2008 #
I guess we can kiss chat goodbye. Microsoft doesn’t want anything it can’t firmly control.
Comment by Roger — February 1, 2008
you are so right roger look what what to msn chat microsoft shut it down
Comment by mjones — February 2, 2008 #
I can assure you there will not be any more (Free Chat Rooms) which so will be wrong of them to do away with.Anyway to make money I can bet you they will try.And when yahoo chat goes away you can kiss yahoo goodbye.Chat is the main reason personally speaking keeps (Yahoo) alive as it is today.I enjoy chatting in the rooms from time to time, and yes I have a regular chat room filled with many many wonderful internet pals.I think people should stop seeing dollar signs and finally see US as someone and see for themselves.
Comment by misty — February 2, 2008 #
@Lucky
Microsoft Office is the single biggest selling piece of software on the mac platform. Microsoft does not ignore the mac platform.
Comment by Ian Kenefick — February 2, 2008 #
Now why? I shut the door on MSN.com cause I don’t like it and don’t like the service they provide, If this goes through then we can kiss yahoo goodbye and maybe something good would come out of this and be something better than yahoo and msn. Ether way lets just say by now and start looking for something better and keep Microsoft out of it….
Comment by Scott15597 — February 2, 2008 #
Microsoft will never compete with google that is there ultimate goal google is not so greedy and don’t feel the need to dominate everything google has an amazing team who come up with highly inovative ideas microsoft is left behind.
what does this mean for yahoo? well for a start they will force us to use vista messenger eventually
9.0 development will ground to a halt i for one will find another alternative i can’t install vista because my system does and can not meet the HUGE requirments of recource hogging vista this will be the final nail in the coffin for yahoo and you diserve it treating the public as fools promising fixes that never come,making everyone wait over 12 MONTHS for vista messenger and generally treating people like trash hopefully google will update gtalk now and it will be 1000!x the messenger yahoo is or ever can be
Comment by Timmmmmy — February 2, 2008 #
o and if this goes ahead im changing web hosting from geocities microsofct are usless with technical support etc but there we go shame on you yahoo
what next paid chat rooms like msn was before that idea died microsoft will now concentrate on the ad and search side of yahoo chat and webhosting will be LAST on the agenda if on it at all that is shame on you yahoo :l
Comment by Timmmmmy — February 2, 2008 #
Whenever which decision you make, I will support you!
Comment by iwin — February 2, 2008 #
Go ahead, death to yahoo, new and better startups will be born.
Comment by Ahoole — February 2, 2008 #
I have watch yahoo grow into the company it is today. I have seen Yahoo’s products change. Some changes have been good, some not so much.
Over the last couple of years I’ve noticed a certain attitude develop within the yahoo corporate community; services that sit in beta for years, bugs that never get fix and so on. You’ve been jumping from one trend to another trying, I think, to pick up the “WOW/myspace/leet” market (Y!Mash, by the way, is crap).
To put it plainly, you all seem bored with your product. If that’s the case then you should take the money and run. Let Yahoo die with grace. Microsoft will hack out the pieces of the yahoo services it wants namely search and marketing; dumping the rest.
I realize, ultimately it will come down to the economic realities of the situation, but I hope you won’t sell. I hope you will remember the excitement and commitment you felt when you first started the company. I hope that you will continue to provide a safe and clean service for those of us who don’t want to be constantly inundated by smut, violence, and leetism.
Regardless of what you decide to do I want to thank you for providing us with many fine services over the years.
I was here when Yahoo turned on its light and I expect I’ll be here when they go out.
Comment by Shannon — February 2, 2008 #
Don’t let microsoft get you guys.
they get rid mac messenger and chat rooms!!!!!
Comment by Larry — February 2, 2008 #
“Personally, I don’t want [Yahoo] to sell out to a giant like Microsoft. Yahoo should understand that Microsoft is going to use them as leverage to beat Google and be number 1 in the search engine industry. Google yet does have its flaws… Can’t think of any right now but they do.”
-ThoughtsUncensored.com Admin
Comment by Thoughts Uncensored admin — February 2, 2008 #
Yasoft Messenger
Comment by olubi ezra — February 2, 2008 #
Were are the people that made yahoo in there garage what do they have to say about this i bet they would be pissed off at the thought of you selling to microsoft this sucks.
Comment by Tony — February 2, 2008 #
It turns out Microsoft haters are also psychics, since apparently they can all see into the future.
Comment by The Lucifer Principle — February 3, 2008 #
save yahoo
keep it independent
Comment by eric — February 3, 2008 #
Public chat is a money funnel for any business. If there were good money to be made with public chat, Google would of jumped on this a long time ago. Why hasn’t Google done this? Obviously because there is NO money in it. Corporations are going to invest their time, money and energy into what earns them the most in profit, period. Public chat is more of a liability than an asset with the U.S. Justice Department constantly seeking out sex predators, and Corporations don’t want to spend time and money for constant litigation in State/Federal courts defending themselves in Congressional hearings. Messenger services with public chat is very High Maintenance. Like the previous comment posted, Microsoft Word is a program that requires very little maintenance from Microsoft once it has been sold. Chat requires constant maintenance, patches and large teams to keep it up to date and secure, let alone the cost to improve future builds.
Comment by Juan Valdez — February 3, 2008 #
Microsoft did this every single time, even from the begining… Why invest more in your own development when you can buy products that are already on the market? It’s cheaper and it assures an overall succes, if that product’s being used by a many consumers out there…
It’s a simple fact, do you really need Microsoft at this time? The only reason Microsoft does this it’s because they can’t come up with anything that can take lead from Google, or if they could, the investment would have been way bigger…
If you’re goal is to beat Google, then I think you have the potential to do this all by yourself. Just look at what you have accomplished!
Comment by Mike — February 3, 2008 #
dont sell;;;;;keep yahoo like it is…..real and friendly””’
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Comment by Richard — February 3, 2008 #
This is a very sorry move. Microsoft should stick in its own field and quit trying to dominate the web.
Yahoo’s niche has been very inventive.
If any one company dominates the web it could be disastorious for all of mankind. Better to have some variety.
Profit is fine. However absolute power corrupts absolutely and opens the door to oppression. Both companies should check out their history.
I for one am sorry to see Yahoo 360 go. I would like to see it further refined. I particularly like the avatar idea.
Rather trying to overtake everyone else Microsoft should try to be more innovative.
If Microsoft becomes as dominate, as they want to be then that opens the world to world-wide dictatorship.
Is there a way that Yahoo could concentrate on its own development? I really do not want to have to change everything such as my internet provider, my email, etc.
By the way, I am wise to Microsoft having some of its people sending in positive email to this site. Really how dense do they think everyone is?
Comment by WebSpeak Ezine — February 3, 2008 #
Dont kiil off yahoo
yahoo is apart of my life I ues it every day if it get bot out by Microsorft Yahoo would lose a lot of custamers like me
Comment by Jim — February 3, 2008 #
Say goodbye to Yahoo Chat and the best messenger on the web Yahoo Messenger. it was great knowing you.
Comment by Joshua N. — February 3, 2008 #
yahoo offers so many services we have all grown to love over the years… now to see it all going out the window upsets me.. as with new coorporations comes new changes, microsoft have some interests in yahoo i think, yes.. just not the interests that we who have come to know and love as dedicated yahooers
Comment by still bored — February 3, 2008 #
i want to post some news
Google: Microsoft deal bad for Internet By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer
11 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. raised the specter of Microsoft Corp. using its proposed $42 billion acquisition of Yahoo Inc. to gain illegal control over the Internet, underscoring the online search leader’s queasiness about its two biggest rivals teaming up.
The critical remarks, posted online Sunday by Google’s top lawyer, represented the Mountain View-based company’s first public reaction to Microsoft’s unsolicited bid for Yahoo since the offer was announced Friday.
“Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo raises troubling questions,” David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, wrote. “This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It’s about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.”
Google’s opposition isn’t a surprise, given that Microsoft views Yahoo as a crucial weapon in its battle to gain ground on Google in the Internet’s booming search and advertising markets.
Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft has been trying to depict a Yahoo takeover as a boon for both advertisers and consumers because the two companies together would be able to compete against Google more effectively.
But Google is painting a starkly different picture, asserting that Microsoft will be able to stifle innovation and leverage its dominating Windows operating system to set up personal computers so consumers are automatically steered to online services, such as e-mail and instant messaging, controlled by the world’s largest software maker.
Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt also called his counterpart at Yahoo late last week to offer help in frustrating the bid, according to a report on The Wall Street Journal’s Web site Sunday, which cited anonymous people familiar with the matter. The help did not include a counterbid but may have included supporting other counterbids, or guaranteed revenue in exchange for an ad outsourcing agreement with Yahoo, the people said, according the newspaper.
AT&T Inc., Time Warner Inc. and News Corp. aren’t planning to bid for Yahoo, the Journal said, citing the people familiar.
To help make its point, Google pointed to the way Microsoft previously used Windows to help extend the reach of its Web browser and other applications — a strategy that triggered a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit alleging the software maker illegally used its operating system to stifle competition. The dispute ended with a 2002 settlement that required Microsoft to abandon some of its past practices.
“Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?” Drummond wrote.
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, said preventing Microsoft from buying Yahoo would undermine competition by allowing Google to become even more dominant than it already is on the Internet
“Microsoft is committed to openness, innovation, and the protection of privacy on the Internet,” Smith said. “We believe that the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo! will advance these goals.”
If they get together, Microsoft and Yahoo would have about 16 percent of the worldwide Internet search market — still far behind Google’s 62 percent share, according to comScore Media Metrix. But Microsoft and Yahoo already are far bigger in than Google in e-mail and instant messaging, and conceivably would be in a better position to squash rival services if they combined.
Illustrating the enormous stakes involved in a deal that could reshape the technology and media industries, Google and Microsoft are already debating the pros and cons before Yahoo has responded to the offer.
Yahoo so far has little to say except that its board will carefully examine Microsoft’s bid — a process that “can take quite a bit of time,” according to a message posted on the Sunnyvale-based company’s Web site.
The review “will include evaluating all of the company’s strategic alternatives, including maintaining Yahoo as an independent company,” Yahoo said on its Web site.
Most analysts believe Yahoo will have little choice but to sell to Microsoft, with its stock price near a four-year low at the time of the bid and its profits falling since late 2006. When it was first announced, Microsoft’s offer was 62 percent above Yahoo’s market value — a premium analysts doubt any other suitor will be able to top.
If Yahoo accepts, antitrust regulators in both the United States and Europe are expected to begin an exhaustive review that some experts think could last a year. Microsoft believes it could get the necessary approvals to take over Yahoo late this year.
If nothing else, Google probably will try to raise enough alarms about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal to delay its approval for as long as possible. By doing so, Google would have more time to draw up plans to counteract the combination.
Google also is borrowing a page from Microsoft’s book by urging antitrust regulators to take a hard look at the proposed marriage between its two rivals.
Just days after Google struck a $3.1 billion deal to buy online ad service DoubleClick Inc. last year, Microsoft began lobbying regulators to block the transaction. U.S. regulators blessed Google’s DoubleClick acquisition late last year after an eight-month review, but the antitrust inquiry in Europe remains open.
Comment by david — February 3, 2008 #
wow.. cant wait..
Microsoft = crappy software, yahoo = worse software.. lets combine them and see what kind of garbage we can create together!
Comment by jeremy — February 3, 2008 #
[...] Now, the question is, will Yahoo! accept this offer ? Do you think so ? personally, I would say “Yes”. Yahoo! really want to do something to put themselves back on track. They need more confidence, money, power.. which Microsoft can provide them. So, whats Yahoo!’s response so far ? [...]
Pingback by The Yahoo! Microsoft deal !! | Things To Live About, dinsan — February 4, 2008 #
Do Not Sell
Comment by Freddy — February 4, 2008 #
As stated in one of my Favorite all time movies…. ” this town needs this measly small town savings and loan to keep people from crawling to Potter.”
Hence, I’ll be devastated should Yahoo give in to the big bad monster. There have been many changes over the years that have saddenend me about Yahoo, but such a change as this would truly be the end of the independent freedom. Such a chance is akin to controlled freedom under “Big Brother” who most of us fight daily to stay away from. Such a move….sends many of us away to another spot…..and of course Jerry et al would not truly care , I am sure by that time…since their pockets would be lined…and we small fries would just have to move on.
I beg of you to not do this thing. Please keep ” Mr. Potter” out of our lives?
Not to mention, how do you sign an alliance with AT&T then sell out to Potter and his evil crew? Does this mean Potter reaps the benefits of AT&Ts’ presence? Or …..??
Don’t we users have any input? Or is it solely up to those who make the money…… and not those of us who spend the money?
And how many times must i try to post this? Is Mr Potter already
Comment by Tony — February 4, 2008 #
here is a update
SEATTLE - Yahoo’s walls are awash in bright purples and yellows, while Microsoft’s campus is coated in drab neutrals. Yahoo’s co-founder holds the cutesy title of “chief Yahoo,” while Bill Gates was “chief software architect.”
Yahoo epitomizes California cool; Microsoft is still trying to get over its competition-crushing past. But the culture clash may not be as big a stumbling block to the software giant’s rich buyout bid as some critics may think.
Yahoo Inc. is still mulling over Microsoft Corp.’s offer, worth about $42 billion based on Microsoft’s closing share price Friday. Even if Yahoo’s board and shareholders approve the takeover, U.S. and European antitrust regulators must still sign off.
Google Inc. stirred that pot Sunday with a blog post that called a combined company “troubling” from an antitrust standpoint; Microsoft followed with a statement of its own that the deal would actually improve competition.
Yahoo might appear more laid back, but the two are culturally closer than one might expect. For instance, while Google Inc. foots the bill for employees’ meals, Microsoft and Yahoo both make their work forces pay in the cafeteria. And while some associate afternoon soccer and cricket matches with Yahoo’s startup ethic, Microsoft’s campus is dotted with playing fields.
And their similarities extend far beyond the perks.
“Yahoo is not the sort of strapping startup it was 10 years ago. It’s a corporate organization with its own bureaucracies,” said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research.
Microsoft, for its part, has had to tone down its competitive behavior after a decade of antitrust problems. Though its Windows operating system is on more than 90 percent of the world’s computers, its perpetual lack of savvy online has also prompted it to experiment with Silicon Valley-style events, including inviting programmers to gather once a month in bean bag chairs to brainstorm and collaborate on cool Web projects.
Ali Diab, co-founder of a startup called Ripple TV, worked for both companies in the past. He said the talk of a culture clash is overblown, and noted similarities between Yahoo co-founders David Filo and Jerry Yang, and Microsoft founder and Chairman, Bill Gates, and its Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.
“David and Jerry, Bill and Steve — they’re quite technical, quite astute technologists, and I think the cultures deep down still reflect that at both companies,” he said. “Yahoo maybe a little more has a young, adolescent, college-like culture. But it’s a third the age of Microsoft.”
Diab, who reached the level of general manager when at Microsoft between 1998 and 2002, and vice president status at Yahoo between 2002 and 2006, said he didn’t sense animosity toward Yahoo while at Microsoft, or vice versa — just a natural sense of competition.
But in spite of the fact that Yahoo shares its Stanford roots with Google, both cultures harbor a burning desire to beat the search leader.
“It wasn’t, ‘Yeah, we’re just OK with being No. 2′” he said. “We were very much intent on being No. 1 in that market.”
The two companies are also not complete strangers to working together. Until Microsoft launched its own ad-serving technology in 2006, it used Overture, a search marketing system Yahoo eventually bought in 2003.
More recently, Yahoo and Microsoft teamed up to make it possible for their respective instant messaging users to chat regardless of which service they were signed on to.
Yahoo has also been one of the only companies to make use of some new features built into the year-old Windows Vista operating system. Yahoo’s latest instant messaging program was constructed with Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Systems Inc.’s popular Flash, a technology called Silverlight that has otherwise been slow to catch on.
All that doesn’t mean Yahoo will meekly agree to be swallowed up by Microsoft, even if the combination gets them part way to their goal of toppling Google.
Even as Microsoft revamps its e-mail and other consumer Internet products, and talks about weathering the industry’s shift toward computing done over the Web instead of on powerful desktop computers, it still doesn’t seem to “get” the Internet. Its online services business is a tangle of competing brands and a consistent money-loser. And while Google has launched Web-based word processing and spreadsheet programs, Microsoft has taken heat for moving slowly out of concern for its desktop software cash cow, Office.
“There’s a perception that the only reason MSN and Microsoft’s online services have been around as long as they have is because Microsoft has other successful, cash-rich businesses with which to fund them,” said Matt Rosoff, an analyst at the independent research group Directions on Microsoft. “Yahoo says, ‘We made it on our own, we don’t need people who have never had a financially successful (Web) business telling us how to run our business.’”
While tech-industry buyouts have a less-than-stellar track record — think Compaq Computer Corp.’s 1998 acquisition of Digital Equipment Corp., America Online’s 2001 buyout of Time-Warner Inc., or the rough start to Hewlett-Packard Co.’s 2002 takeover of Compaq — Microsoft may be able to shake that curse as well.
Industry analyst Rob Enderle said Microsoft-Yahoo is unlikely to suffer the culture clashes and integration problems that plagued others because Yahoo is clearly the weaker party. Some small turf battles may erupt, but the Yahoo contingent won’t have much leverage.
Microsoft faces plenty of problems, between antitrust concerns and the chance Google will step into the ring, if only to raise the price and sting Microsoft.
But once the deal goes through, Enderle said, “This is an easy merger
Comment by david — February 4, 2008 #
@icyelene read
There’s no reason whatsoever why you can’t access MSN sites on an old computer. Have you ever tried typing in msn.com? LoL.
Comment by Parry Hotter — February 4, 2008 #
Don`t Sell..
Comment by blou — February 4, 2008 #
microsoft.inc is an over throwing dictatership personality company that stole from apple computer to get their start in the computer business.Microsoft only made the computerchip smaller is the only real difference. Microsoft has gotten a few “phising alerts ” in the past. Figure it out anyone,the sale of yahoo to microsoft would be the biggest mistake in the family name of yahoo.
Comment by thomasm.doyle — February 4, 2008 #
The way I see it, it’s bound to happen sooner or later. Either Microsoft or Google will eventually get Yahoo.
Now when this happens, is anyone’s guess. But I can say once this does happen, it’s safe to say that chat rooms will not be around. Dire prediction I know, but it’s one way Microyahoosoft can cut down on expenses.
Comment by Venom — February 4, 2008 #
I rather see google taking it then yahoo.
If microsoft going to take yahoo then well I wont be coming back to yahoo anymore.
Just like I did change home page from msn.com to yahoo.com
Comment by Larry — February 4, 2008 #
Google just scared & don’t want Microsoft to get Yahoo!…Haters gonna delay this buyout for awhile
Comment by tj.iscool — February 4, 2008 #
If this will happen, I will move away from yahoo.
Comment by gowest — February 4, 2008 #
Agreed chat will be discontinued if Microsoft buys Yahoo!
But I don’t really think it will happen. Yes Yahoo is losing profit. That may not last long before they start seeing black again. Why would Microsoft keep Yahoo! Chat if they axed there own MSN Chat?
I prefer googleahoo over Microhoo.
Time will tell
Comment by SGFC — February 5, 2008 #
omfg this tottaly sucks please don’t sell to microsoft they suck if you sell to anyone let google have it.
Comment by tony — February 5, 2008 #
One company I would love to see buy out Yahoo! is Apple Computer. I think that would be the best combination ever and really take on Microsoft.
Comment by Sloar — February 5, 2008 #
I hope Microsoft do not get control of yahoo. I hate Microsoft and they ruin anything that they get their hands on. Its why I’m using yahoo messenger rather than MSN.
I for one hope that Yahoo will remain an independent company as there is so much more to yahoo than just a search engine.
Neil
Comment by Neil — February 5, 2008 #
didnt like the msn with its steel concrete feelings. i am and will be forever Yahoo.. please dont sell out. dont even like msn features.. until yahoo dies so am i and will never be found anywhre better shutdown my puter for good unless do some researching or reading some news.. dont even like google. only the google earth/mapping i find interesting.
Comment by mika kurooka — February 5, 2008 #
Well there goes the chat rooms and a decent Messenger!
Wow! i had MSN messenger installed on my computer forever and refuse to use it.
I guess thats gonna be the new messenger! Rather sad really! i hate everything about MSN Messenger. the way it looks and the way it feels. it’s horrible. last time i ran it i had a hard time finding the preferences to keep it from starting when windows started.
I even went as far as uninstalling it from my PC completely. It’s use less messenger.
now if the Chats stay i am sure MSN will make it pay. it would eliminate the bots which is a plus. but will eliminate most of the people i talk to in the chats. even they said they would not pay for a chat service. most people won’t! Especially fi that chat service is ran by the evil MS.
So yahoo will become worthless at least for the computer literate. for the ignorant it will be a gold mine for Microsoft. but we all know most people don’t know anything else but Microsoft! Mr. Gates and his billions in monopoly money is to blame for that!
Goodbye yahoo. been nice knowing you!
Comment by Johny — February 5, 2008 #
I like Yahoo and can introduce myself - “YAHOOIST”
Please, think twice, think about us and make a right decision to retain your independence. We are with you and not with Microsoft. Yahoo is our huge & virtual world!
Comment by Alexey — February 5, 2008 #
I’ve been using Yahoo since the 90s, and use the Messenger nearly every day. I use the voice function on Messenger to speak with a friend in Australia. I want Yahoo to remain an independent company.
The news of Microsoft’s proposed hostile takeover of Yahoo was anger and disgust. How many job would that merger cost?
I’m quite tired of Microsoft deciding when everyone has to buy a brand-new computer and operating system and computer. Was obsolescence planned into XP, 2000, 98 and 95?
It’s obvious to me one reason Google is ahead with its search engine status is because it can devote more energy to what it does best.
Microsoft insists on forcing everyone to replace their computers and at the same time wipe out the competition. This is not a game of “Monopoly.”
Comment by Jane — February 5, 2008 #
just hope the sale is meant for our intrest as whole, i have been very royal customer and i would not imagine having poor quality or strings attached messanger, its user friendly and very fast,,,,,, plis thnk about longterm benefits before entering into any contract………….dont hestitate to contact me for professional advice if need be……kudos
Comment by sam kariuki — February 6, 2008 #
Good Morning,
I was an IT guy when younger. I still watch very carefully.
If I were you, I would do the same in dealing with Microsoft!!
Never a fan, do what I can, without MS, my apple and I,
OK Steve let me down, by submitting to the clown, some know as CEO MS,
I still have the best that I can afford, to paint, draw, and even write, without the Vista Mess.
Comment by Al Hale — February 6, 2008 #
What i think is that Yahoo should consider how thier decision will affect thier users that use thier services like me. If Yahoo does accept the offer from Microsoft i do believe they will be changes that people may not like. I think Microsoft should concertrate on improving thier own software and then make thier offer to Yahoo later.
Comment by Claude — February 6, 2008 #
ffs….all M$ seems to want to do these days is dominate and compete with companies that have a much greater chance at surviving long than they can while forgetting about the consumers (e.g. trying to compete with sony by rushing out a console that has more bugs than a cheaply made porn flick). This honestly sounds like M$ is trying to get the 360 to be the number one console.
Come on man, this’ll be AOL all over again…
Comment by Glen — February 7, 2008 #
O.K. I have a real bad feeling about this. Do you see whats going on folks? It looks to me like Microsoft wants to play god again. If MS takes over yahoo.. you will notice some BIG changes in the internet later down the road. May not be immediate but rest assure it will happen. I agree with the other comments in here..there will be no more public chat. But the way I see it.. chat is dying anyway. There are only about 20-30% of the chatter’s that were in the chat rooms a few years ago. For those who still chat in the chat rooms.. get used to it..within 1 year, there WILL be NO MORE public chat.
You can also expect big changes to email service too. I mean both companies have there own email service, only 1 of them will win out. There will still be a “messenger” I don’t know if it’ll be yahoo or MSN, or they come out with a new one that’ll merge the both together. There will be a change in the look of the search page, but don’t expect much improvement. I think yahoo has, on there search engine (if not more) as MSN does. MS has “gadgets” and yahoo has “widgets”. That might be a good thing for some.
But what I’m concerned about..In the past, Yahoo has always provided most of there services to the public at no cost. Where, we have Microsoft, providing most of there services, and products for a cost. If you look at Microsoft in the past, you had to pay more to really get what you want. And then MS released Vista. Talk about a BIG mistake..ha, ha. We can’t even do 20% of the things we could do with XP, and they want to cut that out in June too.
In my opinion, in the long run.. we would be more limited from the services we have always enjoyed before. Afterall, MS has ALWAYS been in it for the money. Thats my take on this. I don’t like the idea at all!
I understand that Yahoo is struggling (money-wise), and they will have no choice but to crumble (sell-out) to Microsoft. I guess (as the say) all good things must come to an end!
Comment by Kevin — February 7, 2008 #
O.K. I gotta “rephrase” what I said in my last posting (”in it for the money”). Sure, all companies are in it for the money, but Microsoft is (has, and always will be) in it for “more money”. Money from us for what little they have to offer.
There is a difference between “in it for the money”, and “in it for more money”. As Microsoft is as big as they are now, why do they have to worry about competing with Google? I think there is another reason why they want to take over Yahoo!
Comment by Kevin — February 7, 2008 #
Personally I say don’t sell, because as it is in vista I cannot use Yahoo mail as my default email client, I have not figured out how to set it up.
And this is now that they don’t own Yahoo yet.
I can see it now, when and if they do.
Quite frankly I do hope yahoo consider us. The USERS because it is us that made Yahoo into what is is today.
There are mergers that make sence instance Adobe and Macromedia. That combination has been a good thing so far.
But Yahoo and Microsoft Very very bad combination.
Not because we will go to paid services, that is not a bad thing. What is bad is not to be given a choice.
Now Messenger for Mac yup you can kiss that ADIOS! Cuz while they do support it Mac, they only support those products which make them money. So I don’t think they would continue to support something that was free.
I’m suprised they don’t charge for search results
Oh well there is always Google, besides if this merger goes through I am sure they will be more than happy to step up their efforts and make Google into a hybrid of what Yahoo is today.
Comment by Claudia — February 7, 2008 #
I’m sad to hear Microsoft is buying Yahoo! Inc, do they have nothing better to do? Yahoo has already been going down hill for a while I receive alot of disconnects and sometimes am not able to connect to Yahoo! Messenger, I wonder what this will mean for this…as for chat rooms, they are already gone as far as I’m concerned, It’s all bots……
Comment by brambo — February 9, 2008 #
Maybe all of us are partially to blame for this possible buy-out. How many times do we use Google for a search engine. How many times do we tell people to “Google it”. If everyone that uses chat would of used Yahoo as their web browser and search engine instead of Google or other web browser maybe Yahoo would have millions of dollars more in increased revenue and we wouldn’t be in the situation where we are now.
Comment by Juan Valdez — February 9, 2008 #
glad to see the rumor that yahoo will spurn microsofts bid.
Comment by Josh — February 9, 2008 #
DONT TAKE THE DEAL. I WILL NOT TO WANT TO BE A PART OF ANYTHING MICROSOFT HAS TO OFFER.
Comment by MARTIE PITTMAN — February 10, 2008 #
omg thank you yahoo for no going with microsoft please now except deal with google and rise up again.
Comment by tony — February 11, 2008 #
The board of directors of Yahoo are holding out for a bigger offer from Mocrosoft! I heard it on the news.
Comment by To Funny — February 12, 2008 #
No, Yahoo! Don’t do that!
Comment by Crystescu — February 13, 2008 #
Don’t let them buy you…..i rather you guy do business with google!
Comment by Azizi — February 16, 2008 #
The deal has already fallen through so stop begging as if you have a say in the matter anyways LOL microsoft wanted yahoo for 14.09 per share where as they wanted to sell for 20.1 i belive so microsoft wanted to steal it in reality THE DEALS GONE THROUGH lol@ wanting to buy yahoo this companys stocks are dropping faster than a whor*es pants stupid stupid investment for anyone
Comment by Karl — February 17, 2008 #
Well is not too bad after all. Microsoft-Yahoo sounds good….!!!
Comment by Rad — February 17, 2008 #
You guyz look at other companies bought by
Microsoft and what happened to them, before you do any business with them… You know how to make the big money and the don’t and that’s enoying them so much that they try to buy you before they go out off business as their stocks are allways falling down. Dont get lurred by their promisses as cheating you like they steal their clients, is all they know how to do…
Comment by M@riansky — February 19, 2008 #
Please ignore the deal of microsoft.I think you are the best web, chat and mail provider in world.
Google is just loosing its fame , After peeping in the middle.
Yahoo is the Best ………………………!.
Comment by Abdul Mannan Khan — February 28, 2008 #
Well t ehir is the good and bad of it… Bad of it what will Microsoft do with chat… yes its the only reason I use messanger mostly is to chat….
then there is will thehy finally fix it? or not….. I wish Yahoo stay Yahoo…. hell I pay money each month to be able to chat here…and have it work…. I volunteer to be a room monitor… But well its all a dream…. guess you call it a cyber dream….LOL
Comment by den — March 1, 2008 #
No way should you join or be taken over by microft,
you only have to look at sky tv and see what has happened with them, we have lost all the most important sports to sky and prices keep rising on sky.
Virgin Media have taken Sky to court over the way they have treated people by restricting there chanells and I think the same thing would happen if you sold out to Microsft, do not put all your eggs in one basket, stay independant.
Jon
Comment by jon — March 2, 2008 #
I think Yahoo shud merge with microsoft as it will help it to make more better
Comment by shashank — August 3, 2008 #