SocraticGadfly: Microsoft move on Yahoo may backfire

April 11, 2008

Microsoft move on Yahoo may backfire

First, Microslob is threatening to lower its current offer if Yahoo doesn’t accept that. Well, that ought to be worth a chapter in the book, “How to Win Friends and Influence Proxy Stock Battles.”

Second, especially with Yahoo approaching Google for this test run on advertising cooperation, this whole battle is expected to help Gurgle, which is exactly what Microslob didn’t want to do.

Third, when your new operating system, Vista, is such a piece of crap your own execs complain about it, AND your dreaded Service Pack 1 is so big you ought to have started over with a new OS, AND this SP1 is itself still pretty crappy, from what I’ve heard …

Don’t you have enough on your own plate, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, without worrying about trying to take over Yahoo?

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