Comments on: Ballmer's letter to Yahoo board: 'Now is the time'

Here's the full text of a letter Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote Saturday to Yahoo's board of directors threatening a proxy fight and lower bid if Yahoo doesn't make a decision about Microsoft's offer in three weeks.

[lmasanti]

Is it just money?

Why is MS pushing so hard Yahoo!?
"If" MS is sure that it can put its directors "easyly"... why push?
(Do "directors" cost too much?)
"If" MS is sure that its offer will please the shareholders... why
push? (Maybe there will cost them more money!)
Why the "urgency now"? There is less than a couple of month in
front to have the answer.

But... what is "shareholders" say "no" to MS? (Look similar to ISO
standarization,,,)

I think that MS "knows" that it is not in the best position.
If the take over fail... which one is the next move? Buy AOL?

MS is getting "hard ball playing" and they are not used to that!

[kennethlawson]

MS just Being MS,,, A Bully...

Lets See If I own a company, and I like someone else's company that i think would go nice with mine and I offer to buy them and they say no. I really don't have much choice about what I can do, mostly just offer more money, or leave them be and hope the change their minds,,,
Unless I'm Microsoft,, in which case I threaten to make your life miserable until you either sell to us or roll over and die altogether . Actually I, being Microsoft, would rather you just die... Slowly,,
But then I'm not Microsoft, so I'm not trying to buy a company that don't want to be bought...

http://kenenthlawson.blogspot.com/

[amarkj]

Educate yourself on publicly traded companies

Microsoft made an offer and Yahoo needs to respond to it or face shareholder lawsuits. It has nothing to do with your view of Microsoft being a bully. Get a degree!

[phangbuntjung]

it is not a friendly offer.

Desparate Ballmer, how far can you go?