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Why Microsoft Is Chasing Yahoo

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. It's clearly their last chance by 2.7182 · · Score: 0, Troll

    They goofed wft a lot of internet things. Too little too late though.

  2. Jealousy by sunderland56 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft is just jealous of software companies that people actually like.

  3. IT'S BACK!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://www.goatse.cx/

    Now more shocking than ever!

  4. Mod Article Flamebait by drinkypoo · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yahoo has always had stale search offerings, second rate search technology, and a mediocre unmotivated workforce.

    This piece is a thinly disguised attack on Yahoo!.

    It is also a meandering rant, and the webpage has stupid formatting. If I wanted to read everything at the width of a newspaper article, I'd read the newspaper.

    File under "do not post stories from here again"

    --
    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  5. Re:Perfect Strangers ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    People who use stock ticker names like that are assholes.

  6. Re:"Utilizing"? by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 0, Troll

    I blogged your mom last night. Your sister's more fun to blog.

  7. holy shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll