http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2006/12/will-microsoft-buy-yahoo-next-year My commentary on Tech News, Starting a business, Ebay, and Everyday Life Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:43:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2006/12/will-microsoft-buy-yahoo-next-year#comment-14677 Michael @ SEOG Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:51:42 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2006/12/will-microsoft-buy-yahoo-next-year#comment-14677 I think there is probably too much of a culture clash -- from all accounts they are having a difficult time as is with Ray Ozzie and their live platform. It is difficult to take a culture based upon massive complex software and ask it to make small internet applications. There would also be issues on the advertising system and either Yahoo or Microsoft having to junk the new systems they came up with. It would make sense from the numbers but I'm not sure either would bite or really mix well together. I think there is probably too much of a culture clash — from all accounts they are having a difficult time as is with Ray Ozzie and their live platform. It is difficult to take a culture based upon massive complex software and ask it to make small internet applications. There would also be issues on the advertising system and either Yahoo or Microsoft having to junk the new systems they came up with. It would make sense from the numbers but I’m not sure either would bite or really mix well together.

]]> http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2006/12/will-microsoft-buy-yahoo-next-year#comment-13904 10 reasons Microsoft will *not* acquire Yahoo in 2007, one reason they might » Make You Go Hmm Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:41:51 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2006/12/will-microsoft-buy-yahoo-next-year#comment-13904 [...] What have you liked about Yahoo in 2006? Do you agree with Jeremy’s list? Would you provide additional or different reasons Microsoft should seriously consider acquiring Yahoo? Thatedeguy weighed in yesterday and he doesn’t think it will happen. You? Related PostsYahoo Mindset: shopping to researchMole alert! Leaked Microsoft memos warn of coming service wave being “very disruptive”Starting to see Live.com search referrals [...] [...] What have you liked about Yahoo in 2006? Do you agree with Jeremy’s list? Would you provide additional or different reasons Microsoft should seriously consider acquiring Yahoo? Thatedeguy weighed in yesterday and he doesn’t think it will happen. You? Related PostsYahoo Mindset: shopping to researchMole alert! Leaked Microsoft memos warn of coming service wave being “very disruptive”Starting to see Live.com search referrals [...]

]]> http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2006/12/will-microsoft-buy-yahoo-next-year#comment-13766 Brady Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:44:00 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2006/12/will-microsoft-buy-yahoo-next-year#comment-13766 I'm going to go with the linkbait option. Microsoft culture would never absorb yahoo employees successfully. They'd promptly jump ship taking their fat stock options with them. Microsoft has done fairly well with its internet properties and I can definitely see them leveraging things like the conveniently default on RSS feeds on the Vista desktop as an additional way to push them. Oh you could pretend that users delete/remove things like that but then I could tell you how many hundreds of machines I see a month with the HP quicklaunch spam bar still running after 5 years, don't even get me started on aol toolbars. I’m going to go with the linkbait option. Microsoft culture would never absorb yahoo employees successfully. They’d promptly jump ship taking their fat stock options with them. Microsoft has done fairly well with its internet properties and I can definitely see them leveraging things like the conveniently default on RSS feeds on the Vista desktop as an additional way to push them. Oh you could pretend that users delete/remove things like that but then I could tell you how many hundreds of machines I see a month with the HP quicklaunch spam bar still running after 5 years, don’t even get me started on aol toolbars.

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