Comments on: Microsoft may pick own services over Yahoo's

Redmond could choose its own ad platform and mobile, but stick with Yahoo's search engine, e-mail, and Web 2.0 applications.

[Manhattan2]

Microsoft and Yahoo are just trying to fend off the next Google

This Computer and Internet industry is not rocket science! That is why Microsoft has to try so hard to squeeze out or acquire startups. Who has the next big idea is the real question. The coding and databases can be set up almost overnight. Google "Sensible Ventures" and you will find where big ideas are powering a NASA like exploration into the future of information technologies and some real rocket science also.

[fred dunn]

Microsoft should just improve on MS branding

and totally blow off the yahoo deal. That would give them the same capital they would have spent on an aging Yahoo infrastructure and dedicate that to building more MS datacenters around the world and start taking on Google slowly.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step and that step should not be buying a "has been" Yahoo.

[rdgadz]

agreed

there is no technology that microsoft can gain from this deal, only users and clients. In my opinion MS has better products than google and yahoo.

[CharlesRovira]

Why didn't Ballmer just license the search engine?

Typical chair throwing bully scare tactic.

If the search engine is what he wanted, it would be so much cheaper and easier to license it.

But this get Microsoft's name in the news (and puts them in the EU's antitrust spotlight again [http://and maybe the US's DOJ's radar, if they ever grow some balls again.|http://and maybe the US's DOJ's radar, if they ever grow some balls again.])

[SqlserverCode]

So go work for google

First of all this deal is not done yet
for all the 1000 people getting laid off, Google wants you

http://otherthingsnow.blogspot.com/2005/10/google-interview-questions-they-are.html

[lonestarState]

Riverdance at Yahoo!

A merger between Yahoo! and Microsoft would be the worst thing that Yahoo! could ever do. There is no benefit to Yahoo! other than a temporarily higher stock price.

The important question to ask is what does Microsoft have to offer Yahoo! other than it's money?

The answer is very simple absolutely NOTHING! Microsoft services are all redundant to those of Yahoo! and worst of all not one Internet service Microsoft offers supersedes those of Yahoo!. A Microsoft control of Yahoo! would be like a drunken man driving a race car... NOT GOOD!

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[rcrusoe]

This isn't likely to be good for Yahoo! or Microsoft

IMO, Microsoft has a history of buying good companies and
turning them into mediocre companies, and if they handle
Yahoo! the way they did Hotmail, RAV, etc. they will lose both
customers and users.

I have to agree with Scoble on this one. He said something
along the lines of:

You can't get an eagle by breeding two turkeys.

[gsmiller88]

Ugh, keep Yahoo Maps please!

Microsoft's map service doesn't even work with users outside of
Windows.

[rdean]

To do that would scuttle the value of the deal

If Microsoft chooses its own services over Yahoo!'s, it's going to have a hard time keeping the the intellectual capital (i.e., smart people) on board, let alone the customers who chose Yahoo!'s offerings over Microsoft's. Basically Yahoo! would look like Netscape after the AOL buyout.

The only ones happy about this deal are the big institutional investors that own boatloads of stock in both companies.

[JCPayne]

LOL The masses don't use M$ stuff in large numbers now...

Why would they want to after actually having used Yahoo before????

[se.rev]

yehaa

yehaa yipee Ilike google