Ballmer: We're Lucky Microsoft Didn't Buy Yahoo

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @02:17AM from the if-only-they-had dept.

alphadogg writes (quoting Networkworld): "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer feels intensely fortunate that his company's $44 billion bid for Yahoo back in 2008 never materialized. 'Sometimes you're lucky,' he said with a smile at Web 2.0 Summit, responding to a question from conference co-chair John Battelle. Careful not to offend his search market partner, Ballmer put his comment in context, saying that any CEO would feel grateful for not making a major acquisition in the months prior to the global financial collapse that started in the second half of 2008."

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Re:Yahoo? by Toonol · 2011-10-19 03:26 · Score: 4, Informative

Yahoo mail isn't any worse than any of the alternative email programs. I know lots of people that still use Yahoo for mail.

None of them use it as a start page/portal/search engine, though. I'm not sure of any functionality it has other than mail that is particularly valuable... it has some ok financial reporting, I think.

I miss having a good tiered and human-reviewed directory of web sites, though, like Yahoo was when it started.