<![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @billin:
Not at all. Actually, he's pretty calm. He knows a hostile takeover would cause Yahoo to damage themselves out of spite. Soon they will be so unattractive that they're going to have to deal.
Their stock holders are already threatening to sue. It won't be long.

munan

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @golferal:
Gee, and I wonder why YOU don't sign my paychecks.... Oh yeah, because Ballmer might have some info you don't.
You know, in about another six months Yahoo is going to come crawling back to us and beg for $26 a share.

munan

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Ballmer should have out Yang in in a headlock with his sweaty armpits until he accepted the offer.

Sheesh, do I really have to tell Ballmer how to negotiate?

golferal

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Google is becoming the new evil they are becoming as evil as ebay is. So to counter that. M$ take over of yahoo is a must if we want to have a fair game. Google is starting to stink they way they are conducting their business.

bgbs

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> This is good for everyone but Microsoft (although the Yahoo stockholders may not figure that out for a while).

Guy-Fawkes

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Strange, Gizmodo left out the ending part of Steve Ballmer's letter:

p.s. GRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (veins bulge in neck, shirt rips off as Ballmer grabs a chair, swings it over his head and-...)

billin

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @HeartBurnKid: I think some new mechanism they [Giz] added in the past few weeks does it auto-magically_

I've linked up to a couple* of YouTube Vids and it pulls them as well_

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @HeartBurnKid: I think some new mechanism they added in the past few weeks does it auto-magically_

I've linked up to a coupld of YouTube Vids and it pulls them as well_

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> it's only dropped 6 points from Friday and it regained 1 point from this morning_ Who cares_ This will not tank Yahoo into oblivion just because they didn't play nice with M$_

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> And I have no idea why Giz pulled a pic for that one, when all I did was drop in a link.

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

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Some interesting speculation here; Ballmer's job might be on the line if the deal doesn't go through.

See here

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Yahoo hasn't been relevant (much less any good) for the last 7 years or so. This is a relief. I couldn't fathom why yahoo wouldn't sell for one and I couldn't understand why MS wanted to buy.

Soulxside

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> oops, I messed up my replies. They should be swapped, the first one is to oldman.

japroach

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @oo0cyst0oo: Exactly

@oldmanstan: Tried webmail for thunderbird? hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc. [webmail.mozdev.org]

japroach

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> this isn't over...In 9 or so months, if Yahoo stock plummets, Microsoft will buy it in a firesale. On the other hand, if Yahoo is able to leverage their userbase into profitable social networking, bake sales, or whatever else they claim to have up their sleeve, they buttress the company from repeat rapaciousness from the borg.

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> wow you people hate Microsoft, Microsoft gives me no problems that i can't fix...stop being pussies and complaining about everything microsoft, grow the fuck up

mricyfire

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> I figured that this would eventually happen. Yahoo should have been happy with the deal they were offered, because it obviously seems Flickr and del.icio.us are the only real things they have going for them, and they bought it from other people, rather than developing it in-house like microsoft or google often does. Go figure. Yahoo is gonna regret it in the future.

brettmeadors

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @jpitsch:

However Office is used by over 90% of businesses. That's what matters.

Sleeper_Service

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Good, because I don't want Microsoft's evil over-managed grubs on Flickr. It's already gone downhill enough with the Yahoo! acquisition, we don't need someone to completely destroy the fun of the site, especially for us Apple fanboys...

NightElfMohawk

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> I can't get past the:

"Sincerely Yours"

Steven A. Ballamer

Are they having some kind of affair? That is not very business like....

LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Slam. Now Yahoo is left high and dry with inflated value ready to crash on Monday morning, with momentum. Me thinks Mr. Yang is and his board will be spending some serious cash defending themselves from shareholder lawsuits. And now when the share price hits rock bottom, maybe another offer will appear to a board of more amenable composition. Genius. 'Poison Pill? I'll give you a Poison Pill'. And people doubted Balmers inclusion on Guy Kawasaki's Time 100 list.

Brookespeed

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> What funny and ridiculous speculation. Of course risk is the nature of investing-- but Jerry Yang is going to have to sell the board on this being a GOOD thing, and that Yahoo can make the stock jump 70% pretty quickly or they WILL be pissed at the value left on the table. I'm not sure he's the snake oil salesman Strauss Zelnick is. Yang could be in trouble.

@jpitsch: Yay, fanboy bullshit. Yes, you like Apple and Google and Yahoo. Yes, you hate Microsoft. Yes, some of Microsoft's products may soon become second or even third in their fields-- and yes, there's still a HUGE amount of profit to be made by the guys in second and third.

Give it a break!

wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Thank god. There's no way in hell Yahoo was worth $46B.

SecretAsianMan

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @Syndication:

Ok you got me: MS is currently better at servers. Office ain't anything special though.

jpitsch

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @jpitsch:

XP, Server 2003 and Server 2008 seem to disagree with your statement.

OSX didn't even have an easy free automated way to back up files until leopard.


"Microsoft cannot do email, they cannot do search and they cannot even do an operating system-- they have sucked for a long time now. Yahoo has better email, Google better search and Apple better OS. What is MS going to be in five or ten years?

Answer: SHIT "

Probably the same place it is now. Office is the standard, office integrates with everything including sharepoint now. Active Directory is a standard. Apple doesn't even have a good solution in this market because OSX Server doesn't even have the concept of a domain forest. No rational company is going to trust information within google docs to save money.

Answer: Microsoft still around after 10+ years if not more.

Syndication

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> ...

jamar0303

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @CGrant: Sure doesn't look like it. Not from Tokyo it doesn't.

jamar0303

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Microsoft cannot do email, they cannot do search and they cannot even do an operating system-- they have sucked for a long time now. Yahoo has better email, Google better search and Apple better OS. What is MS going to be in five or ten years?

Answer: SHIT

jpitsch

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Microsoft + Yahoo = Antitrust.
It would never have gotten by the FTC anyway. I think even if the shareholders wanted the merger, it wouldn't have made muster.

aobjects

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Microsoft can't even design a corporate takeover that doesn't crash.

bobdobbs

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> I think this whole ordeal just leaves a bad taste in a lot of peoples mouth once again for Microsoft. Amazing at how they seemed not to care one bit how their company looks thru this whole thing and what it does to their own stock price in the long run.

Dickey

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> ok, why is there all this talk about the share price crashing? of course it is going to crash, it will drop right back down to about where it was before the MS merger was proposed... so what's the big deal? sure, some of the shareholders might be pissed cuz they didn't get a huge payday, but welcome to investing... they call it that because it involves risk, if there was no risk they would call it "getting free money".

oldmanstan

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> This deal was never about the computing landscape as it exists today, in my opinion, but about establishing competivity for the world of cloud-based computing that's just now being conceived and built. MS and Yahoo both lose, on that basis, if this deal doesn't go through; as they are both not well placed to lead in a cloud-based world, but together may have had a chance.

Mandatory_Field

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @Gadgetdon:

My money's on this.

Sleeper_Service

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @butterflyeterna: Seriously?

tptcat

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @max.: yeah, yahoo's loss. even if M$ isn't the buyer, Google or someone's getting a super deal in 3-6 months.

I need M$ to buy them so I can check my mail with Outlook, so I can check it with Thunderbird.

oo0EveryoneElseWasDoingIt0oo

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Friends Microsoft has done this to push Yahoo to take the offer as soon as possible, they know that by doing this the stock will go down at least by 20% or more. Yahoo at Friday was very happy with the price of their stock what they don't realize is that the price of the stock was up because the Microsoft deal.
I bet that sooner than Friday Yahoo will accept the offer after looking that their stock is down by 35%.

max.

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @zorg:

Get a clue, dumbass. 20 years ago, Microsoft was saving everyone from the "evil" IBM. Now MS is the evil one, and Google is going to save us. Wait 10 years and we'll see how altruistic Google really is.

And Microsoft is demonstrating its evil ways by abandoning the Yahoo bid to depress the stock? What were they supposed to do, keep trying? Or would that have made them evil too?

downboy

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> I think yahoo is better off without microsoft. Microsoft is probably better off without yahoo too.

CarbonatedWater

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Unbelievable. Yahoo's board will have to "divest itself" of Yang. Glad I didn't entrust any of my money to him.

ejl10

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Cisco monopoly?

Public Education FTL.

drewls

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> MS has a 20 year track record of pure evil. How can people compare Google's monopoly to MS??

I never hear complaints about Cisco's monopoly. Why? Because they haven't screwed everybody on Earth!!

MS is a special case of evil. Part of why they walked away at this moment was hurt Yahoo!'s stock as much as possible. Some of the anti-Yahoo! comments here are probably from MS astroturfers, given a mission to make dumping Yahoo! stock seem sensible.

zorg

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Come Monday morning, Jerry's ass is grass. Let 'em die a slow death.
Really folks, Yahoo! should have taken the offer, now they have to face the consequences of Jerry's playing the shitty car salesman trying to get Microsoft to basically buy a Yugo priced the same as a BMW.

shenanigans

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Leggy leggy leggy leggy, leggy leggy leggy leggy, leggy leggy leggy leggy blonde!

ihavenoimaginationwhenitcomestopickingausername

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Yahoo might be down on the short term but pressure will be on current management to pick it up quick.

SidV

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Yahoo is doomed. Look for major losses tomorrow.

Be careful what you wish for.

ljj

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Yahoo is not crappy. There is a reason its the #1 most visited site on the internet. I wouldnt mind if Microsoft took over Yahoo because I am a VERY HUGE microsoft junkie. I know so much about it. If microsoft synced yahoo with them then my email would work with my computer as well

Saad Baig

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> What an odd way to conduct business. Shouldn't this stuff be covered by an NDA or something? From what I can see, all Yahoo has done is to say no to an unsolicited bid. Now the effect on their shares could be massive, purely down to the detailed disclosures made.

robman84

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> It might have been an interesting partnership. Maybe both Microsoft's and Yahoo's products, as well as joint projects, might have improved with joint effort.

hammertime1994

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> I've used Yahoo's services since 1997, and I was seriously planning on moving everything I had with them to Google if this merger had taken place. I'm seriously not ready to watch the destruction of Yahoo by Microsoft. If I wanted hotmail I'd have hotmail...

butterflyeterna

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> If only I had shorted Yahoo!!!!!

bryanoak

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Woo, yahoo is not going to get crappier than it already is!

Ke

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Are they walking away, or are they sending a message to the investors of "take it or leave it"? If the stock crashes on Monday, there may be some big investors speaking to Jerry Yang.

Gadgetdon

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @CGrant: Hey now, some folks would call that an "awesome ground floor buying opportunity".
The fact that those people are Realtors makes it no less true. ;)

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> @Neodiablo22: You can't call it "BS anymore" because on monday all that Yahoo stock is gonna plummet.

CGrant

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Retires Yahoo Offer, Won't Try Hostile Takeover]]> Finally!!! Now I hope I never need to hear about this bs anymore.

Neodiablo22

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