Comments on: Fight or flight? Tough choice for Ballmer and crew

As Microsoft's board and execs weigh whether to launch a hostile fight for Yahoo or walk away, bear in mind that more than half of unsolicited bidders take the latter route.

[Commander_Spock]

"Fight or flight? Tough choice for Ballmer and crew"1

No, not really. Leave the fighting to folks who are trained and capable of doing so and then "they" will come home to roost in "real-time". ;-) :-$ :-)

"Navy Re-establishes 4th Fleet to Promote Future Interoperability"

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49729

[Commander_Spock]

What....

... on the *oceans* can "YAHOO" do to help bring the "oil" that the nation needs ashore!

[danaltieri]

finally - some NEW take on the news!

The same details reported in the WSJ articles yesterday has been getting recycled over, and over, and over again...good to see someone taking a fresh tack in looking at the situation. Interesting facts to review objectively - which is much better then half-warmed left-over opinions running rampant about Microhoo. I wonder if they would consider adopting that name...Microhoo has a nice sound to it! ;)

[Commander_Spock]

This is so simple....

... Just sen in the "Redmond Marines and Special Forces". ROFL!

[Norseman]

I wonder...

In all of the discussions Ballmer & crew have been having about this deal, how much time has been spent discussing how this merger might enhance the end-user experience. My guess: 0. It's all about the big bucks. Too bad they're forgetting what might, in the end, make or break the success of the deal.

[Commander_Spock]

You have got to be kidding. Right!

Re: "I wonder... In all of the discussions Ballmer & Crew have been having about this deal, how much time has been spent discussing how this merger might enhance the end-user experience. My guess: 0. It's all about the big bucks. Too bad they're forgetting what might, in the end, make or break the success of the deal". Wake up and see the navy ships off to sea:

Re: "?The Navy, by re-establishing the 4th Fleet, is serious about the countries in the Caribbean and Central and South America, and ? we?re very mindful of the 40 percent of U.S. trade that goes on with those countries and the 50 percent of the oil imports from that region,? Stevenson said. ?I think that the other navies and coast guards recognize that, and they would view that as a positive step.?

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49729

know now about "the 40 percent of U.S. trade that goes on with those countries and the 50 percent of the oil imports from that region,? as "Stevenson" has said... if Commander_Spock and Crew had to find a hefty bills for "gas", "food" and "shelter"... you can bet the "farm" that we would be grabbing hold of all those "international business analytical tools" that should be coming from "Redmond" in "Google-Like ways. :-) M :-$ :-) !

Read the subject line. Huh!

[YankeePoodle]

not worth it

Yahoo is no more worth than Microsoft offer. There is hardly any one in the block that will buy Yahoo, so microsoft should revisit this issue at an appropriate time, especially when Yahoo's yet another revolutionary platform performs greatly without yielding anything to the investors or the users.

[7humbs]

They need it

They need Yahoo! more in the next 5 - 10 years than the next 2 or 3. They resaon why is because it's becoming increasingly clear how hand held devices and other PC type devices will work. A few patents / engineering breakthroughs from Intel and IBM are paving the way towards a Moore's law performance curve for telcom, wifi, etc... data transfer speeds. This is why Google's "Cloud Computing" aka grid computing is getting more air time. Google is already positioned and developing products, Microsoft is scrambling to catch up (Live Mesh and Windows 7...) but they'll never lead again. A future device will rely on a wifi or cellular (hopefully not) connection to perform and that's where Googles open social plan is so brilliant. They can essentially render Microsoft irrelevant, and they'll also have a strangle hold on hardware manufacturers like intel, along with a huge amount of contract leverage with companies like AT&T and Verizon. Lets just hope Google stands by their "do no evil" policy because they're going to own the internet. A platform like Facebook should be very concerned because they don't have a search engine, i.e. they're not connected to the "outside world". MS realizes "that", and they're trying to find a way to aid them in efficiently organizing and collecting all of the info on the net while providing online, apps - video, tv, music, social networking, etc and that's why Yahoo! is so critical. Everythign will be "distributed", processing power, app usage, bandwidth... The reality is, in about 10 years a device much smaller than an existing ipod touch will likely have the ability to perform operations at 100x the speed of the most advanced desktops of today, while cool and probably for over 1 week on a full charge (it'll also support inductive charging).

[Wupta]

I Concur

I completely agree with you. The relevance of desktops as the repository of software and data is surely becoming obselete, thank god for that. Bill Gates said "resistance is futile", he was right even for microsoft. Cloud computing is the present and the future. The ease with which I am able to share connect with my staff is absolutely profound. I still have networks severs in my business, but the relevance of them at this point seems greatly diminished. In fact a company to watch for is ZOHO who. I am using their applications and they are much better then Googles and have been ahead of Google in the office productivity tools.

Microsoft must buy YAHOO!!! No choice.

[theantibush]

like I said last week

whats their game plan if this falls through?

ballmies mouth has painted msft into a corner, as expected.

when will he ever learn that ideas == money,
and not the other way around?

[Seaspray0]

Nice Article! Good job cnet.

Cudo's to the author for showing what offers similar to this one have done in the past. You dug up some relavent facts and presented them well.

[jpmays]

It's rather simple, Mr. Ballmer

It's quite simple, Mr. B.... instead of and getting down and dirty in the mud, simply follow this two-step plan:

1. Populate their Board of Directors with your people until there is sufficient numbers in your favor.

2. Then revisit the takeover of Yahoo! at a later date (say six months). By then, 'your' Board of Directors will basically agree to merge!

Ba-Da-Bing!

[Commander_Spock]

Re: "It's rather simple, Mr. Ballmer"!

>>>"It's quite simple, Mr. B.... instead of and getting down and dirty in the mud, simply follow this two-step plan: 1. Populate their Board of Directors with your people until there is sufficient numbers in your favor. 2. Then revisit the takeover of Yahoo! at a later date (say six months). By then, 'your' Board of Directors will basically agree to merge! Ba-Da-Bing!"<<< Come on dude; with General Elections coming up... this "thing" has got to be out of the way in quick time. (over and done with). Ba-De-Blah! ;-)

[JCPayne]

I would LOVE to watch Microsoft "The innovator" try to build it

themselves.... Ha.... "As if...." as the valley girls used to say.

[Commander_Spock]

It was "already" built since WW2!

Now, "All Your (Yahoo British Guiana) Base Are Belong To Us"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9oh3gqOEKU

Substituting "Ever Onward Microsoft" for "Ever Onward IBM"!

All they have to do is do what they do best; and, that is - build upon what others have first gotten involved with. They do not necessarily have to "innovate"! ;-)

[t8]

Walk away Microsoft

Walk away Microsoft.

You have no idea what the Internet is and never have.

Keep to calling the Internet the "Information Super Highway" as your leader Bill Gates said in his book "The Road Ahead".
http://www.weblogs.co.nz/?p=174

And let the innovators work on the Web.

Microsoft, you have never understood the Web, so why try now. It is way too late.

[Commander_Spock]

"Walk away Microsoft."!!! No Way!

Re: "Walk away Microsoft. You have no idea what the Internet is and never have. Keep to calling the Internet the "Information Super Highway" as your leader Bill Gates said in his book "The Road Ahead". http://www.weblogs.co.nz/?p=174 And let the innovators work on the Web. Microsoft, you have never understood the Web, so why try now. It is way too late". Thirty or more years and counting are but a mere speck in the "realm of time"; so, with "Windows" being (Code-Base OS/2; just leave them alone; and, eventually they will coming running with their tails (oops, "tales" :-) ) behind them.

[The_happy_switcher]

Ballmer is no Larry Ellison

Monkey boy should stick to his Frankenstein dance.

[benjaminstraight]

benjamin straight writes: Let's make this a UFC event.