Microsoft to buy Yahoo

[Jokerswild]

"Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares. The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo's board, is 62% above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday.
Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional $300m this year trying to revive the company.
It has been struggling in recent years to compete with Google, which has also been a competitor to Microsoft."


BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo

[Parker]

I this may be a good move. It will help both Micro$oft and Yahoo in the computer industry.

[screwballl]

and yet another reason I use google and other companies

[Tech Geek Deluxe]

This might be a bad move for Microsoft. The new trend of business model exceeds market-share dynamics into "value driven" economics that must be hard asset and/or cash flow founded in order to support growth and market-share dynamics. I would rather them put greater efforts towards hardware versus "air-ware." Though they need "air-ware" ... real revolution must be ground support to actually hold new territory.

Maybe if they gain Air superiority ... they will be able to control the ground war better; however they better have a hardware solution in the works as well. Software by itself is a "supply" based position and not truly ground support.


They must believe they can re-order accordingly. Or have done "deal structuring" that ensures the bleeding is stopped and that Yahoo will provide sufficient market presence in "Air-ware" at a reasonable cost to compete with Google.

I wonder if Google will bust Microsoft down the road with a true competing Operating System ... and if that has Microsoft worried. I hope so ... if Microsoft doesn't spark the Tech revolution. It appears to me MS is playing survivor versus their precedent as innovators of change. The bigger the Corporate entity the slower they move whilst their responsibility and accountability rise with their directions and momentum. [Stop playing it safe MS and think fresh and new before it is too late.]

Personally I would rather see Microsoft design a "Skinny Kernel" 64 Bit Operating system that is in pure assembly code and stands at 40 Megs and sells for $40 with 2 module package addons of 40Megs each for $40 each -->Media and Business ... making their whole multimedia and office-ware at $120.

I would like to see those in some form of Copy Protected mechanism that actually works ... perhaps a hardware based ram chip. Either on Motherboard, CPU Die or better yet ... an actual Solid state Hard drive with an OS Chip socket. [I would push the latter] Heck at 28% "true ownership" of their products currently ... anything 100% ownership would justify the market shift costs.

A hardware manufactured Operating System Socket may break their Monopoly in the Long run ... but it will also force the market to follow them. Personally the revolution it would cause in the industry might be worth it to get us out of the stone age and into a whole new world of technology that will require gigantic leaps in processing power.


This would be a good "Blitz" plan regardless of economic trends. I would be pressing it based on "revolution creation" economics ... which will follow the "value driven" market trend that we are barely even starting into now.

Regardless ... they need to plan to control Air-ware, Software and Hardware or their monopoly will fail eventually anyways.

Why not be the catalyst for change in a technological revolution and lead that marketshare?


Are you listening Bill?

[screwballl]

I would rather see MS go open source or at least limited source for many of their setups and programs to allow a much stronger support range and software "repair" rather than their buggy and problematic beta releases to the public and fix it later type of attitude.

[Jokerswild]

Originally Posted by screwballl

I would rather see MS go open source or at least limited source for many of their setups and programs to allow a much stronger support range and software "repair" rather than their buggy and problematic beta releases to the public and fix it later type of attitude.

The car companies need to do that too.

[Tech Geek Deluxe]

Originally Posted by screwballl

I would rather see MS go open source ... rather than their buggy and problematic beta releases to the public and fix it later type of attitude.

Hey ... we pay them big money to be their Software guinea pigs ... err Beta testers ... err release candidate lackeys ... err ... heck "I paid them for this crap" customers.

Screwball ... that could work ... if they created the perfect Kernel on assembly and open-sourced the modules. [Like DNA as the primary Building Block]

Their base kernel would have to be 128 Bit then to start and backward compatible all the way to 32 Bit ... and multipliable as a base bit module.

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by screwballl

I would rather see MS go open source or at least limited source for many of their setups and programs to allow a much stronger support range and software "repair" rather than their buggy and problematic beta releases to the public and fix it later type of attitude.

It will never happen.

[Dr. V]

Originally Posted by Hitman

It will never happen.

+1

[screwballl]

I know it will never happen..... but it was more wishful thinking....