Comments on: The Microsoft empire may swallow Yahoo - what will Hutch do? http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:28:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: libhomo http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486645 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:26:33 +0000 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486645 The takeover would be blatantly illegal under US anti-trust laws. Of course, the Bush regime seldom enforces those laws and is in Microsoft's pockets. The most irritating thing for me is that I like my Yahoo Mail accounts and don't want to switch them. But, I also don't want to wait for the outhouse that Bill Gates built to totally trash Yahoo Mail and have to switch in a panicked rush. Things like this remind me of how slimy the Bush regime and Microsoft really are. The takeover would be blatantly illegal under US anti-trust laws. Of course, the Bush regime seldom enforces those laws and is in Microsoft’s pockets.

The most irritating thing for me is that I like my Yahoo Mail accounts and don’t want to switch them. But, I also don’t want to wait for the outhouse that Bill Gates built to totally trash Yahoo Mail and have to switch in a panicked rush.

Things like this remind me of how slimy the Bush regime and Microsoft really are.

]]> by: herbert browne http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486573 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:33:15 +0000 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486573 What is the "synergy" doing to expand markets, rather than simply attempting to eat someone else's lunch, er, "market share"? This isn't about "better", or "more expansive"... it's about taking a bite out of Google. Good Capitalism? I watched what MSN did in their absorption of webtv... they hung it out to dry. It still features an IE 2.2 browser... and turned a pretty good, simple email system into crap, without expanding its actual advantages (that the hard drives in webtv machines are "buffered" in Mountain View, and can't be violated by virus). If Microsoft wanted to do something Novel, that would eventually pay back shareholders & build tons of good will, they should build a toll bridge across Lake Washington to the highway which accesses their campus... a "public/private" partnership with legs (if their "vision" weren't simply driven by vindictive greed). ^..^ What is the “synergy” doing to expand markets, rather than simply attempting to eat someone else’s lunch, er, “market share”? This isn’t about “better”, or “more expansive”… it’s about taking a bite out of Google. Good Capitalism?
I watched what MSN did in their absorption of webtv… they hung it out to dry. It still features an IE 2.2 browser… and turned a pretty good, simple email system into crap, without expanding its actual advantages (that the hard drives in webtv machines are “buffered” in Mountain View, and can’t be violated by virus).
If Microsoft wanted to do something Novel, that would eventually pay back shareholders & build tons of good will, they should build a toll bridge across Lake Washington to the highway which accesses their campus… a “public/private” partnership with legs (if their “vision” weren’t simply driven by vindictive greed).
^..^

]]> by: mcc http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486490 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:28:55 +0000 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486490 <i>I also am skeptical as to what good Microsoft expects to get from Yahoo! What will the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft to offer that is competitive with Google?</i> If I had to make a guess, it would be that not many people are currently using Windows Live. So they buy Yahoo, rename Yahoo Personal Home Page to "Windows Live", and bam! N thousand people are using Windows Live! Of course this is just a guess. It may well be the answer to "why is Microsoft doing this?" is "because they can." I also am skeptical as to what good Microsoft expects to get from Yahoo! What will the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft to offer that is competitive with Google?

If I had to make a guess, it would be that not many people are currently using Windows Live. So they buy Yahoo, rename Yahoo Personal Home Page to “Windows Live”, and bam! N thousand people are using Windows Live!

Of course this is just a guess. It may well be the answer to “why is Microsoft doing this?” is “because they can.”

]]> by: idlemind http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486465 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:51:11 +0000 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486465 Actually, <b>wicked zoot</b>, I hope it doesn't happen at all. I know software developers at both companies, and the cultures (not to speak of the codebases) are entirely incompatible. Any hopes of integrating Yahoo and MSN would depend upon pulling it off quickly (else it just gives Google more time to pull even farther ahead). And that's just <i>not</i> going to happen. It took years for MS to integrate HotMail, and that was just a tiny percentage of Yahoo in size and scope. I've got to wonder if Ballmer &amp; co. really just want to take Yahoo down, or spend a hell of a lot more than they paid to fail and wind up eating Google's dust, after all. Actually, wicked zoot, I hope it doesn’t happen at all. I know software developers at both companies, and the cultures (not to speak of the codebases) are entirely incompatible. Any hopes of integrating Yahoo and MSN would depend upon pulling it off quickly (else it just gives Google more time to pull even farther ahead). And that’s just not going to happen. It took years for MS to integrate HotMail, and that was just a tiny percentage of Yahoo in size and scope.

I’ve got to wonder if Ballmer & co. really just want to take Yahoo down, or spend a hell of a lot more than they paid to fail and wind up eating Google’s dust, after all.

]]> by: Linnaeus http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486451 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:43:36 +0000 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486451 I also am skeptical as to what good Microsoft expects to get from Yahoo! What will the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft to offer that is competitive with Google? I'm a little sad to see Yahoo! having the troubles it is because in its heyday, it really offered a lot. I used its search engine all the time, it was the first web-based email client I used (I signed up for Yahoo! Mail since the very beginning and still use it today), and My Yahoo! has been my home page in all of my web browsers for years. Though I have to say, I'm giving iGoogle (and the Google products associated with it) a go to see if they truly are better than Yahoo! I recently went out on a date with a woman who works (as a temp, but is trying to get a permanent position) for Microsoft, and she mentioned offhand that she and other members of her workgroup got an e-mail message from one of the higher-ups that talked about the weaknesses of Google and how Microsoft would respond. I was curious, and so I asked her to tell me what the e-mail said (if she was allowed to reveal it), but she said that too much of it was over her head and that she didn't pay much attention to it. Drat. I also am skeptical as to what good Microsoft expects to get from Yahoo! What will the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft to offer that is competitive with Google?

I’m a little sad to see Yahoo! having the troubles it is because in its heyday, it really offered a lot. I used its search engine all the time, it was the first web-based email client I used (I signed up for Yahoo! Mail since the very beginning and still use it today), and My Yahoo! has been my home page in all of my web browsers for years. Though I have to say, I’m giving iGoogle (and the Google products associated with it) a go to see if they truly are better than Yahoo!

I recently went out on a date with a woman who works (as a temp, but is trying to get a permanent position) for Microsoft, and she mentioned offhand that she and other members of her workgroup got an e-mail message from one of the higher-ups that talked about the weaknesses of Google and how Microsoft would respond. I was curious, and so I asked her to tell me what the e-mail said (if she was allowed to reveal it), but she said that too much of it was over her head and that she didn’t pay much attention to it. Drat.

]]> by: Ultra Magnus http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486424 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:05:43 +0000 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486424 You can never kill off Google. NEVER. It's like the blob, it will continue to spread and absorb everything in it's path and just when you think you've stopped it, it starts again! You can never kill off Google. NEVER. It’s like the blob, it will continue to spread and absorb everything in it’s path and just when you think you’ve stopped it, it starts again!

]]> by: mcc http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486416 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:25:54 +0000 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486416 <i>Pam, I did my part to piss off Hutch. I bought an Xbox 360 at launch</i> I think one can quite easily assume Hutch is continuing to use Microsoft products as well. Pam, I did my part to piss off Hutch. I bought an Xbox 360 at launch

I think one can quite easily assume Hutch is continuing to use Microsoft products as well.

]]> by: wicked zoot http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486409 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:12:28 +0000 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486409 80% to 90% of all mergers fail - that is, the whole ends up less than the sum of its parts (Sprint Nextel, anyone?). I kind of hope this goes the same way. 80% to 90% of all mergers fail - that is, the whole ends up less than the sum of its parts (Sprint Nextel, anyone?). I kind of hope this goes the same way.

]]> by: Stephen http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486403 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:53:44 +0000 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486403 I work at Yahoo and we are really going piss off Hutch! We have domestic partner benefits, child adoption leave, and Yahoo!Pride regularly puts on events, puts up posters, etc. I can't wait for him to protest us, I work at Yahoo and we are really going piss off Hutch! We have domestic partner benefits, child adoption leave, and Yahoo!Pride regularly puts on events, puts up posters, etc. I can’t wait for him to protest us,

]]> by: Scorpio http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486391 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:14:01 +0000 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/01/the-microsoft-empire-may-swallow-yahoo-what-will-hutch-do/#comment-486391 Yahoo is the AT&amp;T DSL mail client. Imagine teaming AT&amp;T, which wants to spy on all web activity, with MicroSatan, which wants to know all and be all. Ack! Yahoo is the AT&T DSL mail client. Imagine teaming AT&T, which wants to spy on all web activity, with MicroSatan, which wants to know all and be all.

Ack!

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