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Microsoft has made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. Its stated aims are to compete better with Google in online advertising, improve innovation and release $1 billion a year in synergies. Would a takeover be good for web users? Would it be good for investors? Vote and comment below.
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[ Poll ] DEBATE: Is Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo a good idea?
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Some views:
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I suspect two years down the road MS will write off about half of the money spent stating that Yahoo was overpriced and the whole joint venture may end up embroiled in trust suit politics which MS knows all too well.
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I find yahoo mail much more user friendly than hotmail or the new windows live, which is impossible.I would hate my email service to be ruined by microsoft techies, who think of a million changes, without a thought to user friendliness. It is non stop tinkering without improving. And Microsoft is so arrogant and greedy.Now, you have to buy even Word separately when you buy a new computer and you still have to confirm and punch in impossible numbers for them to allow you your honestly acquired software.Please somebody stop Ballmer and Microsoft getting even bigger
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Consequences of the merger may be quit opposite to what Microsoft is hoping for. Don't forget that commodity service like internet search and advertising have no (or very low) switching cost, so people who don't like Microsoft but used Yahoo may stitch to Google, but not likely that something opposite will take place.
Google may also win from the publicity around merger. Inevitable technical difficulties, questionable synergies, cultural misfit ... you name it.
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Utter lunacy. The period over which Microsoft can ever hope to earn an economic return on the $44bn is so long that visibility on the shape of this particular industry by that point is almost zero. Mr Ballmer needs to take classes in capital allocation. If this is a purely defensive move then the game for MS is already lost (as it is for any investor prepared to pay anything close to the current price for Google where the same comment on visibility of long term dynamics equallly applies).
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t is not an idea, it is a move, because of Google.
People like Google.
They don't like Microsoft.
Will they leave it all in the hands of Microsoft? OS, browser, media player, search engines, online services, and... the web content?
I don't think so.
"You don't know what is enough, until it is more than enough"
That's not Steve Ballmer, it is William Blake.
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Yes.
Competition is beneficial for all stakeholders.
It angers me to know that MS wants Yahoo. First of all, I likewhat Yahoo does and how they do everything. MS will screw it uplike they do with everything else they own. Secondly, MS hasenough to worry about due to their utter failure of Vista and XboxLive. Thirdly, it is illegal in America to own a monopoly, whichMS is very close to becoming. Buying Yahoo will make themone massive step closer to shutting down. And lastly, why dothey want it? MS has their own IMing program, their ownemail service, their own news service, their own web tools, their ownsearch engine, and expansions. What will they gain? This isjust as bad as the time when Adobe bought out Macromedia. I don'tknow how many more dumb decisions MS can make.
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