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Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo
eldavojohn writes "Perhaps it's obvious to you and perhaps you'll be pleasantly surprised by his answer but Gates revealed to CNet why Microsoft needs Yahoo. From his response, "We have a strategy for competing in the search space that Google dominates today, that we'll pursue that we had before we made the Yahoo offer, and that we can pursue without that. It involves breakthrough engineering. We think that the combination with Yahoo would accelerate things in a very exciting way, because they do have great engineers, they have done a lot of great work. So, if you combine their work and our work, the speed at which you can innovate and get things done is just dramatically more rapid. So, it's really about the people there that want to join in and create a better search, better portal for a very broad set of customers. That's the vision that's behind saying, hey, wouldn't this be a great combination.""
Microsoft's approach to breakthrough engineering is through acquisitions? Is it just me or do I sense an oxymoron here...
Goodbye Slashdot. You've changed.
"Look, we innovate. We innovate the hell out of stuff. Just yesterday I innovated a donut by taking one off some old guy when I pushed him down a flight of stairs. And Yahoo!, well, we're innovating them right now, and we're going to keep innovating them until they stop moving. Then we'll use their bloated corpse to innovate any Google employee that gets in our way."
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from the Cmdr-Taco-needs-a-grammar-checker dept.
Summation 2
Yahoo is acquired by Google, then Yoogle turns around and acquires Microsoft. Classic Pac Man defense.
And here I thought it was because Yahoo's pages are as fugly and user-hostile as Microsoft's. Shows how dumb I am.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
First, Take a look at http://www.eep.com/merchant/newsite/samples/ee/ee0801.htm, for "Why Most Mergers Fail".
Next, take a look at press releases involving mergers in financial and industrial companies.
Note, how there is highest emphasis on cost savings, and very little mention of ideals and NEW business strategy after the merger.
Lastly, the kind of "merger" you are suggesting is typically done as a buyout of a small company by a much larger company.
See! This is what happens if you drop out of Business School.
For just a 0.1% Fee based on the deal value, I can help provide further advice.
Good Luck!
init 11 - for when you need that edge.
I mean, in terms of software DEVELOPMENT you're right. I'd even say "spot on." But in terms of defining how the computer industry does BUSINESS... well, they wrote the playbook of dirty tricks, copyrighted it, and leased it to the rest of the industry. Marketers in the computer industry, no matter where they work, have a picture of Bill Gates on their wall, candles lined underneath, and genuflect to it every time they enter or leave that room.
Eviscerati.Org: All Hail the Eviscerati
This merger comes from the great minds who brought us Reese's Chocolate and Garlic Butter Cups.
No, they don't just want the marketshare. They want to synergize the paradigm!
And combined accelerate double the speed rapid faster.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
I wouldn't recommend combining a metric shitload with an imperial shitload when dealing with manned spacecraft, unless you want NASA to stand for "Need Another Seven Astronauts".
I write sci-fi for metalheads
I hope its SI, its a lot easier talking about kiloshitloads and centeshitloads as opposed to trying to covert imperial shitloads to shittons and shitgallons.
yep, he's responsible for putting back the chairs
Kaetemi
> And combined accelerate double the speed rapid faster.
I like to add: Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.
I thought the Chair-Man was Ballmer?
Microsoft needs more programmers
DEVELOPERS!
it is, for the uninformed AC
you mean like how infinity + infinity = infinity? so then a shitload would be the finite version of infinity? I think I just gave myself a headache ...
Imperial shittones also only work on earth. Screw that mucking about with shitslugs nonsense.
For those who don't want to RTFA, here is the gist: The richest man on the Earth said: I want more money!
Don't forget GigaShit,which was also the internal name for Vista,and the reason they are looking to buy Yahoo now. :)
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
If you really want a headache try studying Cantor's theorem of the cardinality of shitloads.