Comments on: Video: Microsoft chairman offers Yahoo rationale - CNET News.com http://www.helmutgranda.com/2008/04/29/video-microsoft-chairman-offers-yahoo-rationale-cnet-newscom/ learning through interaction Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:47:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Chris http://www.helmutgranda.com/2008/04/29/video-microsoft-chairman-offers-yahoo-rationale-cnet-newscom/#comment-15030 Chris Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:42:43 +0000 http://www.helmutgranda.com/2008/04/29/video-microsoft-chairman-offers-yahoo-rationale-cnet-newscom/#comment-15030 We think our engineering combined with their engineering blah blah blah blah... We think their experience blah blah blah... Translation: MSN Live sucks as a brand. Google won search, Microsoft lost. Google won text based ads, Microsoft lost. Google is trying very hard to win image based ads (Doubleclick), and Microsoft is trying very hard not to lose this time. Yahoo is a recognizable brand. In true Microsoft tradition, if they can't steal it, copy it or squash it.... They buy it! 40 Billion?! To do what? Take over Yahoo and jack the culture up? How can Microsoft possibly integrate with Yahoo? All they are buying here is a brand. The true talent will bolt once Microsoft is in control, and Microsoft will purge a lot of other employees and management. So there isn't much human capital in the acquisition. There are no major technology plays either, and Microsoft will squash many stealth mode projects that Yahoo is involved in. This acquisition brings up memories of eBay buying Skype. Talk about the worst marriage of two companies... We think our engineering combined with their engineering blah blah blah blah… We think their experience blah blah blah…

Translation: MSN Live sucks as a brand. Google won search, Microsoft lost. Google won text based ads, Microsoft lost. Google is trying very hard to win image based ads (Doubleclick), and Microsoft is trying very hard not to lose this time. Yahoo is a recognizable brand. In true Microsoft tradition, if they can’t steal it, copy it or squash it…. They buy it!

40 Billion?! To do what? Take over Yahoo and jack the culture up? How can Microsoft possibly integrate with Yahoo? All they are buying here is a brand. The true talent will bolt once Microsoft is in control, and Microsoft will purge a lot of other employees and management. So there isn’t much human capital in the acquisition. There are no major technology plays either, and Microsoft will squash many stealth mode projects that Yahoo is involved in.

This acquisition brings up memories of eBay buying Skype. Talk about the worst marriage of two companies…

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