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Why Microsoft Is Chasing Yahoo

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jeeves-wanted-to-much-money dept.

latif writes "Microsoft has been chasing Yahoo for quite a while now. Most people think that it all started with Microsoft's acquisition bid for Yahoo, but this is not so. It is well-known that Microsoft and Yahoo have been negotiating since at least May of 2006, and may have been negotiating since 2003. I have done a thorough analysis utilizing information made public over the past five years and my analysis suggests that most people are completely wrong about what Microsoft wants from Yahoo."

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  1. The reason is obvious! by JCSoRocks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft just wants to make their name really exciting. When they buy / merge with Yahoo! they can combine the names and all of a sudden "Microsoft" becomes, "Microsoft!" - the most exciting company ever! When that happens be on the look out for "Windows 7!"

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    1. Re:The reason is obvious! by syrinx · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was guessing Microhoo! Then when they merge with Google/Youtube, they can be Microhoogletube!

      Add in Oracle and they can be Microhoogletubacle!

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    2. Re:The reason is obvious! by Temujin_12 · · Score: 5, Funny

      When that happens be on the look out for "Windows 7!"

      Windows 7! = Windows 5040?

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  2. Perfect Strangers ? by ad0n · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the linked article: The Microsoft bid never made sense from a business perspective either. Yahoo has always had stale search offerings, second rate search technology, and a mediocre unmotivated workforce. Yahoo derives its value primarily from the massive web-traffic the company controls, but the cost of controlling this web-traffic is likely to be prohibitive for Microsoft

    Second rate, stale, mediocre, unmotivated: sounds like a perfect fit for the Microsoft empire.

  3. Re:"Utilizing"? by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 5, Funny

    I concur with the most recent ancestor poster. I object to repeatedly tautologically redundant grandiloquence. I eschew such verbiage diligently. This very response shows you all that I am the very epitome of plain talking simple folk, scratch scratch, the very epitome of rustic linguistics.

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  4. brain and brain... what is brain? by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apple is a software company. The MacBook or iPhone you get with your copy of OSX is just part of the packaging.

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  5. Too Bad! by gbutler69 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They could become "MicroHooHoo"!

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  6. I once had a housemate who chased Yahoo! by raddan · · Score: 3, Funny

    He painted his room pink.