Comments on: Microhoo machinations: Clemenza was right

So while Yahoo's hire-wire drama plays out to its final end, what's in it for the user? Good question--one that nobody seems ready to talk about.

[Norseman]

What's in it for the user? Easy. Lots more frustrating, time-wasting, intrusive, maddening, stupid, distracting, &&^$%(**% ads, that's what.

[ppgreat]

Nothing for the user.

This started with Microsoft, as always, attempting to acquire what it cannot generate with all of its money and brain power. MS exists for only one purpose: to maintain its monopoly.

This is a desperate ploy on the part of Steve Ballmer. And all it's served to do is inflame the egos of a whole bunch of other billionaires.

Nothing for the user.

[jdzions]

Love the inane knee-jerk Microsoft-hater response. In case it has escaped your attention, Yahoo has absolutely nothing in the Operating System space, the only place Microsoft has a monopoly. Where Yahoo has something (ads, other web services), Microsoft is often number 2 or number 3 or number 8. Nothing to do with Yahoo could possibly have anything to do with the one market where Microsoft has a monopoly. (And even that monopoly is shrinking; Apple is taking a bigger desktop bite than ever.)

[Sumatra-Bosch]

The user will take what is shoved down his throat and LOVE It, and then he'll beg Ballmer to bite him on the face again.