Comments on: Is Microhoo silence a sign of progress?

When Yahoo was actively not speaking to Microsoft, both companies had a fair amount to say. Could the fact they've had little to say publicly mean there's progress?

[miroslodki]

Time is relative

Ina
Agree with most of what you say
but remember that the time it takes today is immaterial

Microsoft is looking at this as a lifelong investment and profit stream in the new web 2.0 world

so a month, two, four, ten - matters not

nor does the "delay" give Google any longterm advantage

anyhow that's my PoV
cheers
Miro
http://miroslodki.wordpress.com

[ti55]

That's why they make placebos.

Even if the merger never progresses beyond the mere gossip that it is now, the discussion it created alone has reinvigorated (albeit temporarily) both franchises; all done with smoke & mirrors. Microsoft has successfully pulled a Britney, without losing its superior credibilty. WTG, Bill - long live the king!

[ynotbecreative]

Objective

I wish c|net were not trying to push this merger. Back when UUNet was
up for sale, both Qwest and Verizon were bidding on it. Qwest made
offers for it that were bigger, but when the deal was looked at closely,
the merger with Qwest would have resulted in customers of UUNet
walking away because of the great disdain of Qwest as a carrier. This
merger attempt is the same. Microsoft would kill Yahoo, maybe not
directly, but indirectly, it would be a short amount of time before
Microsoft would decimate it and all it had grown up to be.

A Microsoft - Yahoo merger would not be good for anyone other than
Microsoft. Microsoft has every ability to bring themselves on par with
Yahoo, if they truly wanted to, but the fact is Microsoft does nothing for
itself - it only buys companies and tries to merge the new company with
its own ways, which ruins what made the original company successful.
Microsoft has never known how to truly innovate anything - they only
buy innovators and think by owning them they are as good as the original
company.

[MMC Racing]

What you say is silly

If everyone runs away from Yahoo (devaluing it), how does that help Microsoft? Would that not help Google more?

What makes more sense is Microsoft will preserve everything good about Yahoo, cut the rest, and integrate some of the better Microsoft properties.

[KTWinATL]

Yahoo Is Already Changing

I'm ready to be it's a done deal. I got an e-mail from Yahoo today, saying they were deleting my mature username account. This is an account I had over 3 years and I'm not the only one. Anyone on Yahoo who had their username marked for mature content received the same letter.

Looks like they're trying to cleaning things up for MS. Next all the adult groups on Yahoo will be gone.

[MMC Racing]

Is this story a sign of a slow news day....

I think so.. :)