Comments on: Microsoft's CEO discounts Yahoo strategy

At a Moscow technology conference, Steve Ballmer says that a Yahoo acquisition was not a strategic pursuit, even at a price tag approaching $50 billion.

[Renegade Knight]

It's not that MS needs Yahoo to follow their chosen survival strategy as it is that Blan B is so much worse that Yahoo may buy MS in a few years.

50 Billion dollars only goes so far.

Yahoo would be utterly stupid to sell off it's assetts. The only ones MS would buy are the ones worth keeping.

[desmondhaynes]

MS is desperate to get a toehold in the search market - ignore safely what Balmer is uttering...
http://techwatch.reviewk.com/2008/05/microsoft-to-lure-search-users-with-cash/

[The_Decider]

What a hoot!

This is just as I predicted he would say when the attempt failed.

Why Microsoft's board keeps this clown around is a mystery.

Maybe they could spend that 50 billion dollars on innovative ideas and competent programmers? It is a wild notion for Microsoft, but others have been successful doing it.

[ppgreat]

I hope he carries a bottle of Listerine around in his hip pocket to rinse out his mouth after constantly spewing out BS like this.

[benjaminstraight]

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