Micro$oft is offering $45 billion (“It was burning a hole in our pocket”) for Yahoo!, which is its last, best hope to keep from slipping behind Google forever and ever in the search/advertising market.
Meanwhile, Google stock has slipped because making $17 billion in profit this last year (or something insane like that) was, evidently, not enough for Wall Street.
Crazy world.
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Just asking, but is “Microsooooooooft!” in the voice of James Kirk yelling “Kahhhhn!!!” into a communicator?
Actually, yeah, it looks like that, but I had the old “Yahooooooo!” commercial sound bite in mind.
Some fun analysis of what it all means from a technical basis. Is Microsoft really going to covert all of Yahoo’s PHP sites to ASP? Is it going to change all its boxes from FreeBSD to Windows? Hard to believe, but …
….but, why wouldn’t they since they are Microsoft?
More somewhat scary prognosis about how MS might treat the Yahoo properties that overlap with their own. Goodbye Flickr?!
Again, it’s Microsoft, why wouldn’t they?
As has been their pattern of the past 30 years.
Steal what they can.
Buy what they can’t.
Get rid of anything else that is a duplication of effort.
Their loss. Well, ours, too, but …