Bartz tells Ballmer "eat my shorts"

YAHOO CEO CAROL BARTZ seems to have started channelling her predecessor and playing hard to get with Microsoft's overtures.

Jerry Yang nearly sank the company when he refused Steve Ballmer's offer to buy the company at an over-inflated price and created a boardroom battle with shareholders who lost a fortune.

Bartz has been in the job for eight days and has been playing hardball with hacks who asked her when Ballmer is coming over for tea and crumpets.

In her first post-earnings conference call with Wall Street analysts she said she didn't take the job to sell the company.

However she didn't rule out flogging some bits of the family silver, such as Yahoo's search advertising. Batz said that Yahoo was not a company that needs to be "pulled apart and left for the chickens".

No one has ever called Ballmer a chicken before, well no-one who has lived to tell the tale.

Bartz said that while she is willing to look at Volish deals. But she deliberately quashed beliefs that she would rush to Ballmer with his huge pendulous cheque book.

Bartz said she didn't arrive at Yahoo with any preconceived notions about what to do with the company and right now she is learning how it works.

She said there were some parts that are easier to break apart so we guess she is just playing hard get while she sticks the right price tags on things. µ

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