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- Regime change needed
- by theantibush May 3, 2008 8:24 PM PDT
- msft could still pull it off, if they have calm and patience, and learn basic negotiation skills, and...perhaps more importantly...have a changing of the guard.
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- No way that the FTC would let Google acquire Yahoo
- by getwired May 4, 2008 8:27 AM PDT
- That would completely meet the antitrust bar.
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(3 Comments)Doesn?t msft realize that ballmie is the face of msft, and that people are damn scared of him? Microsoft is supposed to be kind, and
intellectual, and about innovation...not blatant hostility, and furtherance of the notion that such are all Microsoft is about.
This has got to stop, and stop right now.
All ballmie did was scare the crap out of everybody.
Is it any wonder they were all poppin poison pills?
It didn?t have to be this way.
He succeeded only in strengthening Google?s hand.
Let yahoo stock tank on Monday, and hover in the mid-teens for a while, and things may take a different path.
But not with somebody like ballmie doing the talkin, especially if its the people he wants...which I doubt.
With his hostility, the best at Yahoo would walk, and msft would end up with little more than a domain name for their billions.
Personally, I see Google taking Yahoo off the table.