Is Microsoft just Screwing with Yahoo's Mind?

The Narrative Fallacy writes "This week Cringely offers up a speculative piece asserting that Microsoft might not really care if its bid to buy Yahoo succeeds or not — Bill Gates just wants to disrupt Yahoo and poach the company's employees. 'Microsoft's offer for Yahoo has thrown that company and several others into a tizzy. Yahoo can't be getting much work done, that's for sure ... Redmond's real goal may be simply to poach people from Yahoo, and this deal could help them do just that.' Cringley says there is plenty of precedent for Microsoft's behavior — Microsoft's bids for Borland and for Intuit back in the 1990s sent both companies into a tailspin. 'A failed Microsoft bid, even one involving a termination fee, could lead to horrific results for the company. Remember that Yahoo is staggering here while Intuit was at the top of its market and its game.'"

Comments

I wish MSFT would screw with me, like that.

[mosch]

I'm pretty sure I could stay focused on my tasks at hand just fine, especially if some idiotic behemoth came in and made an offer that caused the market to instantly re-evaluate all my stock and options at a significantly higher price.

The idea that Yahoo is going to be bewildered and knocked astray by this is absurd. But that said, consider the source. He's a twit who makes his living by purposefully trolling people into discussions. He's not a serious analyst, nor does he offer any interesting insight.

It's a shame slashdot got trolled again. You'd think people would learn to stop linking to the tard, but time and time again he makes front page. Pathetic.

Fixes

[Wowsers]

If only Microsoft found so much energy and effort to fix it's own products first!