Most of you commenters never took Business Negotiations 101 did you?

MS should just do a hostile takeover. Honestly, MS could spend a lot less money that it's bid size by just buying shares on the open market until they have a dominant position. I know a lot of staff would jump ship at Yahoo if that were to occur but it seems to me like Yahoo has a lot of unproductive staff right now anyway so a lot high attrition rate would save having to do a lot of layoffs later.

I'm usually not a fan of the vole's strongarmed tactics, but the Yahoo board is just acting like idiots at this point. A 60% markup from market is more than a fair price. It doesn't matter that the price was more 18 months ago. That was then, this is now. Yahoo, by the hour, is getting clobbered by Google, thus becoming less and less valuable. 

Yang and his board must come to grips with reality or find themselves ousted. The game is over. Yahoo! lost.

And what's to stop the Board from taking the Money and Running YaBoo2u. QuITe obviously there will be a dearth of merged personalities all doing the same thing, sniffing round each other for strengths and weaknesses and who would be bothered with that incestuous affair.

A Pocket full of Cash to Splash on what you've always Promised yourself but were frightened to Deliver because Big Brother was listening waiting for his pound of lazy flesh

Lower the bid by lets say 1$ share. If i were MacroVole i would just because i could.