Comments on: Yahoo and Microsoft: Is it on again?

Yahoo's board reportedly shows new willingness for another try to work out a deal with Microsoft.

[someguy999]

I've definitely spend way too many braincycles thinking about this... thus I've moved on. what will be will be!

[sciontcya]

Does ANYONE care?
Really?
No, only Yahoo! employees worried about being dumped for Ballmer's buddies.
Otherwise, nobody in the virtual world does.

[paulsecic]

I don't give a fig....

[benjaminstraight]

I won't believe anything until the papers are signed.

[j_a_s_p_e_r]

Amen.

[amarkj]

Well you obviously cared enough to read the article and comment on it! :P

[Ilgaz]

People really better care about this drama /soap opera. Firefox 3 users can't use Hotmail, that is what MS/Yahoo deal is about. If it happens say bye to ever compatible Yahoo.

[Imalittleteapot]

So what? That would be like the greatest thing ever. Firefox is all handled by Mozilla right? If MS blocks Firefox from Yahoo and Hotmail then what's Mozilla going to do? WELCOME TO MOZILLA MAIL AND SEARCH. Get a real OPEN web experience with Firefox 4, Thunder Mail, and Mozilla search.com!!! DON'T LET Microsoft CONTROL YOUR WEB EXPERIENCE!!! Maybe it won't be Mozilla. Maybe some other company, but just let the free market take care of it. Microsoft only has a monopoly on the OS. Without the monopoly they simply have not been able to compete up to this point. Let's watch them fail again.

[rcrusoe]

I have a Hotmail account for throwaway mail, and have been using it with Firefox 3, on a Mac, since RC1. No problems so far.

[Renegade Knight]

If MS buys the only parts of Yahoo that make sence, that would gut Yahoo, leave MS sitting pretty and Yahoo with no hope of recovery. In short Yahoo would be selling out their shareholders and MS would actually give theirs hope.

[Tony McCune]

Yahoo can't sell search, I have the proof. All it takes to be good at search is give good search results. http://tmccune.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-yahoo-cant-sell-search.html

[viditbhargava]

why should MS buy Y! search??? Live search is already amazing!!!
yeah...they should get a piece of the Y! online ads...that would make more sense

and please can these two either patch up or part ways completely...they're acting like kids

[jmdunys]

Do you want a secret? The REAL reason Microsoft is still interested in Yahoo, and Yahoo still talking to Microsoft, is because the Search thing is only a cover up.

Microsoft want Zimbra

and the Zimbra team

[jmdunys]

Do you want a secret? The REAL reason Microsoft is still interested in Yahoo, and Yahoo still talking to Microsoft, is because the Search thing is only a cover up.

Microsoft want Zimbra

and the Zimbra team

[jmdunys]

Do you want a secret? The REAL reason Microsoft is still interested in Yahoo, and Yahoo still talking to Microsoft, is because the Search thing is only a cover up.

Microsoft want Zimbra

and the Zimbra team

[Quemann]

Basically, it's not over yet until it is over.
Possible ongoing Y-M talks can be mutually suitable for Y and M, and even shareholders might feel happier than hear talks have come to an end. Even Carl Icahn.

[jCounsel]

Is this why Yahoo removed the "My Sources" tabs from the news.yahoo.com page?

jk. (Although I would like ot know when/why that happened...).

Good on short-term and for shareholders, but bad for long-term imho.

I too, jmdunys, have wondered why Yahoo has not leveraged the Zimbra platform at all! I mean, that technology could leapfrong Outlook as a service, yet I have seen no real advance since the purchase.

The question may be can Yahoo sell of technologies it has purchased to make more money than selling to MS? If so, why sell? Why not just liquidate?

Answer: Yahoo was made to move forward. What I want to know is has the top management stopped moving because they have "made" it or is it that everyone is leaving? Surely someone, if I can, still there can think of new ideas and services...

[jCounsel]

...perhaps MS wants flikr?

[rontowns25]

How would they integrate the two search services. I will say that live search is becoming much better, at least from where it was a couple months ago. They need the ad inventories of yahoo. I'd love to see a microsoft-yahoo vs. google heavyweight bout. They could compete against eachother and another basement startup will begin to rise. A small business internet tech company is somewhere in a basement developing the next best thing.... www.readtheanswer.com/index.php?RTA=web2

[j_a_s_p_e_r]

Major Investor? Thats the source? C'mon, this not journalism

[skeleton69]

It's all about the long tail:

http://www.twistedpine.org/seattleuntimely/index.php5?episodeNum=29

pretty hilarious

[GregoryL]

Yawn! Is is safe to wake up now?