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Hostile takeover for Yahoo?
So Bill is at it again, gobbling up everything in his path. This time he sent Steve Ballmer to beat up Yahoo! and watching the two companies have a pissing contest is too fun! Yahoo thought Microsoft made an indecent proposal so they sent Steve Ballmer a snippy response, and MS’s answer to that is “tough crap beotch, take our offer or we’ll sweep the rug out from under your feet”. Personally, I think MS should be neutered at this point, buy nothing else until you pay off your bills first (like fines and taxes)
I decided it’s too much fun to watch the big guys go at it and was curious as to what the general consensus is for those following, or involved in, the Yahoo! vs Microsoft match.
It does boggle the mind though to see both companies writing back and forth like two lovers quarreling. I could just see Yang and Ballmer up late at night, chatting on Yahoo! IM.
BigBallmer56: Hey baby, how ’bout a cool 62% premium and we could swing baby YA!!
Yang-A-Lator: ASL?
BigBallmer56: Ughhh……52 M MI, U?
BigBallmer56:…….u there? hello?
Yang-A-Lator:
Come on MS, pay your taxes, fix your OS’s, just retire already and let someone else own a business for once. Personally, I’d rather see Yahoo! stay where they are if only for the fact that I don’t want MS to buy the remaining pieces of the universe that they don’t own already. Give him the hand Yang 
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“just retire already and let someone else own a business for once.”
In other words, the losers just can’t compete with Microsoft and Stalinists like you want the government to step in.
Hey cool, I was waiting for some Microsoft employees to spread light on the subject 🙂
I have to say though, I don’t think it was ever Yahoo’s intention to compete with Microsoft. I think MS just wants to buy up Yahoo in the hopes of one day squashing Google.
Yahoo didn’t like their first offer, so it seems like they’re flirting with MS for a better one. But Ballmer basically told them “how ’bout we just shove the first offer up your nose and buy you out instead?” (I’m paraphrasing here)
I’m thinking that Microsoft, not unlike Stalin, wants to grab Yahoo so they can compete with Google, and one day with their newly found and beefed up web presence, they can send their secret police to comment on every blog to help maintain social submission and corporate allegiance. The can then move on to buy out Google to create the ultimate (and only) search engine/online advertising conglomerate.
MS is just ticked that the top dog for online search and advertising is someone other than Microsoft, and they’d like to change it. All hail Tsar Gates! 😀