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Well duh.. Of course they'd lock it down, bundle it into Vista and overall try to dominate whatever category Yahoo is still good for. And they'd destroy it in the process. Duh...

Mar 18, 08 - 07:41 am Comment from: shen

wait.... what has MS ever done that even remotely involved the net that didn't hurt it?

go ahead, name one thing.

..... i'll wait.......

lmao ...... im gonna wait too

Mar 18, 08 - 08:06 am Comment from: Murasaki

Xbox live

For all their faults, ms did one thing right: Make Apple get off their collective 4ss3s. Now, you can't be criticised for that!

Maybe we should ask Jim Cramer how he feels about M$ buying Yahoo!...ROFLMAO!

Just my $0.02

Mar 18, 08 - 08:26 am Comment from: Mr. Peabody

"... might hurt internet..." ?!?

That's obviously a rhetorical question - right? Because really there is no question about the answer to that question - unless, as I say, it's meant to be a rhetorical question. So, without question, it must be a rhetorical question.

Mar 18, 08 - 08:48 am Comment from: shen

funny Murasaki, everyone i know (personally) who has used xbox live says it has ruined their net experience.....

Mar 18, 08 - 08:55 am Comment from: Big Al

Microsoft is evil.

Pass it on.

Mar 18, 08 - 09:03 am Comment from: Think

xbox live?

Yea I wanna buy that new item, it's gonna cost 3470 points.

What the hell are points?

Lets see, iTunes, Ebay, Amazon, ect.... use dollars.

I once made the choice of Yahoo over Hotmail because it wasnt Microsoft. If M$ succeeds, which I really hope they dont (hang in there Yahoo'ers), it wouldnt surprise me if there was a sudden drop of yahoousers that rather abandoned the boat for Google or something else rather than staying on waiting for captain Balmer to steer it into an abyss blah. I have no idea what I would do if Microsludge succeeds

Mar 18, 08 - 09:39 am Comment from: Maginary

Microsoft buying Yahoo! would cause true global warming. Lots of Internet surfers around the world would suddenly get the red-ass.

Microsoft buying Yahoo means in 3 years, there'll be no sign of Yahoo whatsoever. Microsoft is mainly interested in Yahoo's engineers. Once they have their hand on that, they can close Yahoo and benefit from their market share.

Aouch! Anybody knows M$ hurts anything it touches... whether it's bought or stohlen, no diference...
Sorry Zune Tang... but truth hurts, sometimes... ;..(

Mar 18, 08 - 10:22 am Comment from: ndelc

"Chien reports, "Schmidt pointed to Microsoft's past history and 'the things that it has done that have been so difficult for everyone,' but he did not elaborate."

Need he elaborate? All one needs to do is look at a MS product list to se see what they've done that's made thing more difficult.

Let Microsoft buy Yahoo ... it will hasten the fall of Microsoft.

Mar 18, 08 - 10:50 am Comment from: Zune Tang®

This Google moron is as bad as you MAC dorks with his doom and gloom view of a larger Microsoft presence in the internet and the wildly false conspiracy theories against the innovative, customer-focused folks in Redmond. Get over it.

I have news for you MAC losers. Microsoft got where they are today with hard work, revolutionary, creative solutions to technical challenges and a commitment to playing on a level playing field through open formats and fairness in the marketplace. Wake up. Microsoft's past history and actions are a wonderful success story.

Your potential. Our passion.™

@ shen
Actually M$ inadvertently created the fundamental innovation behind Ajax. Let’s give credit where credit is due as much as I hate this company.

Let M$ buy YH!

Vaporize 44 B. and after 2 years it's MS again.

Means it's time to buy GOOG cuz you just KNOW that MSFT is going to do a hell of a job.

First things first, merge Yahoo Mail with Hotmail for that truly LIIIIVVVEEE experience.

Give me a break. Google is just whining because they have a monopoly on Search... and they don't want competition. TO be honest, anyone who has seen the difference between say, the API for Google Maps and the API for MS Virtual Earth... can easily see that the VE API is WAY more open than Google.

If you have seen MS's recent stuff... they have been incredibly open. In fact, far more open than Apple OR Google.

I hate it when massive companies whine about other massive companies.

Hurt it? Boost it. I don't think any two companies can change much on the web anyway. If you look at history Microsoft, Yahoo, lycos, everyone thought that THEY would control content, then wikis/blogs/podcast/and people woke up. no way jose, we are fine weather this goes through or not, the boost of course is equally debatable.

http://ThunkDifferent.com

Mar 18, 08 - 12:05 pm Comment from: Ampar

They haven't stopped ingesting anything within their grasp.

"Aiming to fill out its set of tools for Web advertisers and publishers, Microsoft Corp. plans to acquire ad technology firm Rapt Inc."

"Microsoft would incorporate Rapt's software and services into its Atlas Publishers Suite, part of the company's Advertiser and Publisher Solution Group encompassing Atlas, adCenter, DRIVEpm, Massive Inc. and ScreenTonic."

"The move signals Microsoft's ongoing push into digital advertising, highlighted most dramatically through its $6 billion purchase of aQuantive last year. Most recently, Microsoft snapped up Israeli startup YaData, whose technology is designed to help advertisers find original customer segments online."

(source: MediaPost Publications)

Mar 18, 08 - 12:05 pm Comment from: KingMel

Ditto, Jopie. If M$ buys Yahoo, it will pull both Yahoo and M$ lower.

I, for one, will attempt to avoid any and all Yahoo sites if Yahoo is purchased by M$, just as I have done for MSN and its ilk.

Mar 18, 08 - 03:51 pm Comment from: Hm...

@ ApplePi:

While I don't enjoy the whining either, I don't agree that MS has been "incredibly open." They've just been caught trying to buy/bribe their way into making their proprietary Office xml file formats into ISO standards. The documentation for that format is over 11,000 pages and reads like an obfuscator. (You can find pieces of it on the web.) Their current "openness" appears to be just another ploy to duck official scrutiny and lull the regulators.

Mar 18, 08 - 04:59 pm Comment from: Hentercenter

"Google says Microsoft buying Yahoo might hurt Internet"

Oh noes! Don't hurt the internets!