Comments on: Murdoch on Microhoo: 'I'm mystified'

Rupert Murdoch says he can't understand why Yahoo won't take Microsoft's money or why Microsoft isn't pressing the point.

[patrick_i]

I feel for Jerry Yang. This is his baby. He has a responsibility to the stockholders definitely but why does it seem that Wall Street is always willing to suck the last few drops of blood from a baby for a few pennys. Maybe he's looking long term.. which is what I think we need more of these days.

[dascha1]

Out with the bad, in with the good they say. Why doesn't Coors jump on the bandwagon? They seem to be focusing on social marketing in other spaces according to Wall Street.

[OlsonBW]

The reason it hasn't gone anywhere is that Microsoft KNOWS that buying Yahoo won't help them one bit.

For the same reasons that Microsoft has poured tons of money into projects that have not been successful, the Yahoo merger won't be either.

The reason is that Microsoft does not know how to compete or make a compelling project IF THEY CANNOT BLOCK DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS.

Sorry to yell, but that is the only way that Microsoft can compete until management (Steve Ballmer) is replaced with a LEADER that truly knows how to lead and not just scream at people and throw chairs.

[open-mind]

Microsoft should just fall back on their tried-and-true recipe...



Make Windows Live the default search experience in IE with no option to change it. Also tweak IE so that Google's site works like crap. Granted this may be considered illegal, but fortunately for Microsoft, the justice system takes forever, and when they are found guilty nothing really happens.