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Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo
The news is everywhere this morning about Microsoft's $44.6B offer to buy Yahoo. The offer represents $31 a share, a 62% premium over Thursday's closing price; and Yahoo's stock price has been rising in after-hours trading. Microsoft has been making overtures to Yahoo since 2006, according to the CNet article, including a buyout offer last February that was rebuffed. Mediapost.com has some perspective on the deal from the point of view of ads and eyeballs. Such an acquisition, which would be Microsoft's largest by far — it bought Aquantive last year for $6 billion — would need approval by US and EU authorities. A European Commission spokesman declined to comment.
The M$ moniker is perfectly legitimate and weakens nobody's position in the slightest.
Arguments are weakened by false or inaccurate premises, writing M$ gives a perfect idea of the bias of the poster without going in long explanations to disclose those biases.
People getting worked out about this are the real childish ones lending far too much significance to this in the judgment of the character of the person who u$e$ it.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
You lose all credibility as soon as you use "M$". It's like calling Linux "Linsux"
No idiot, it would be like calling linux "£x" in some world where 90% of the people writing messages used that abbreviation.
Calling Linux "Linsux" is like calling M$ "Microsucks", which is obviously an insult because it is a waste of typing when the proper name could be written with less keystrokes.
Face it, "M$" is a very useful and quick abbreviation that is not ambiguous. The letters "MS" mean MANY things (try typing them into Wikipedia).