I can't wait until they change all their web servers over to IIS and Yahoo!.com disappears off the web.

Hotmail anyone?

"regulators: keep the hell out of this"
Are you mad?
Netscape had a 90% browser ratio until Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer in Windows, the rest is history. 
I'm no Google fan but at least I can choose which browser to use and which platform to use it on. How long until Yahoo prioritises Windows only web based services to consolidate their stranglehold?
Google has a large market share because it provides a good service, you're not forced to use it. I suspect the same will not be true about Yahoo in the future.

Martin, you are wrong. This deal should not go through. Microsoft is a convicted monopolist of extremely rapatious nature, and ought to be prevented from acquiring other companies, just as child sex offenders are not permitted any future contact with children.

Microsoft cannot be trusted -- they haven't changed their spots, probably are incapable of changing, and so should be kept on a very tight rein.

Unfortunately, there probably aren't laws or precedent to prevent it. But that doesn't make allowing or encouraging this acquisition right.

Soon we will hear that we need to upgrade our PC's to use yahoo, register with "genuine search advantage", and the main page will bloat to a 50MB load.

Not to mention only Vista will work with it, but Windows7 will be slated to include a seamless tie-in with it's UI and Yahoo. Unfortunately the feature wont work, and after delaying the release 2 years to get it working, will be dropped and forgotten until Windows 13, when it still wont work.

Don't feed the Voles!

Doesn't matter how big the implications, the fact is mergers tend to have a poor success record. On paper their assets sound good, but in reality you run into issues like mismatch of corporate culture, difficulties interfacing internal systems and all these kinds of things, that can take years to sort out.

It could very well keep Microsoft so preoccupied trying to sort it out that its competitors get the jump on it.

If Microsoft really wants to take a serious shot at beating Google they are going to have to take the vice like death-grip off the average user’s crotch. In recent times Microsoft has dragged its name through the mud more than usual and as a result most users hate anything with a Microsoft stamp on it. So if they can use an alternative THEY WILL!

Microsoft you’d better change those spots before they look like malignant cancerous growths.

Heres Yahoos explanation: 

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080201/microsoft_yahoo.html?.v=14 

AMD is now strong $7.68 & thats progressive predictable flucuator, good for easy $,its in AMD protocol, while Yahoo is for dreamers, as profit is already done deal, just watch suckers line up, hoping for more..

Sure Fast Money, If you can PINCH IT.

thomas s von drashek md

Yes, Google deserves the competition. But, M$ has abused its monopoly power.

A fair and reasonable solution would be to require M$ to split into 3 separate companies: OS, applications, and internet. Then, and only then, permit the internet company to buy Yahoo.

ScottJ



you just want to see a big honking war, admit it :)

Google will lose this fight unless it comes out with an OS that can match MS in terms of ease of use.


A snake can try and eat a horse, but it will probably die in the attempt.

Some may see this as an aggressive move by Microsoft. However I see it as a defensive move. Balmer can add up as well as anybody and he knows that on the current Google growth rate it will be bigger than Microsoft by 2010.

Microsoft _has_ to do something to keep some of the ad money from flowing into Google before it's to late. 

If Yahoo accepts, Microsofts problems are only just beginning - ask Time Warner and AOL.