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Microsoft Sets Three Week Deadline for Yahoo! In Public Letter

Posted by Zonk on from the little-note-from-me-to-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a letter sent today, Microsoft writes to Yahoo's board of directors to tell them that they would like to 'negotiate a definitive agreement on a combination of our companies.' Their message is a combination of friend and foe: 'If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders.'"

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  1. Re:Well, it was nice knowing you Yahoo... by contrapunctus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I really want to agree with you but I teach at a small college and (almost) all my students couldn't care less about Microsoft and trust. They all have hotmail or msn or yahoo email addresses, lay it all out on facebook and myspace and they don't know about MSs tactics. So if MS is shooting for the (lucrative) young-and-ignorant demographic, they will succeed (people who know what they are in the minority).

    I've found that young people very trusting and don't care about privacy.

    So just like the rest of the sleazy successful businesses of targeting the ignorant (spam, late night commercials, mailings, etc.), they will find a big market and make money...
    Wal-mart doesn't make money by earning trust or catering to the elite either. Same market.