[Microsoft is truly an animal, a wild beast]
Bradley Horowitz bids Yahoo farewell
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| Bradley Horowitz, who headed up Yahoo's Advanced Technology division, bid
| adieu to the company in a blog entry posted on Valentine's Day.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9873183-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Week in review: Yahoo snubs Microsoft
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| "The smell of fear and rage is pervasive on"The smell of fear and rage is
| pervasive on campus," wrote one News.com reader to the TalkBack forum. "They
| might as well have been told the Mansons were buying the place." campus,"
| wrote one News.com reader to the TalkBack forum. "They might as well have
| been told the Mansons were buying the place."
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http://www.news.com/Week-in-review-Yahoo-snubs-Microsoft/2100-1083_3-6230761.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
In a report from Reuters it is said that Microsoft is using investors to force
a hostile takeover. Welcome to Microsoft {Scum Routine}^TM. And there's this:
Top Yahoo shareholders could support Microsoft
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| If they do a proxy fight or tender offer, it could be an eight-month battle,
| with Yahoo losing a number of employees, as well as a distraction for both
| companies, proxy solicitors say.
|
| Said one proxy solicitor: "There is a time value of money."
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http://www.news.com/Top-Yahoo-shareholders-could-support-Microsoft/2100-1014_3-6230878.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Proxy solicitors. Extortion, bribery, manipulation, what else? Microsoft is
going down the same way as Enron, but it want to pull down Yahoo along /with/
it.
Days ago:
Is Microsoft/Yahoo about Windows' failure as a top server platform?
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| Before my whiney enemies all get up in arms about yours truly once more
| beating up on Microsoft, I'd like to point out that the idea of Microsoft
| buying Yahoo being a tacit admission that Windows can't cut the mustard as a
| top Internet server platform didn't originate with me.
|
| No, the credit, or blame if you prefer, goes to Marcelo Carvalho, an IT
| manager in San Francisco and Damien Hocking, a Linux-Watch reader who brought
| Carvalho's thoughts to my attention.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8001941484.html
Yahoos won’t work for Microsoft
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| I work for Yahoo!, and I have had to explain to a few people recently why the
| Microsoft buyout talks are so troubling for Yahoos. They don’t seem to
| understand the severity of the impact that a Microsoft takeover will have.
|
| [...]
|
| Key reason #1 - Microsoft is anti open-source...
|
| [...]
|
| Key reason #2 - Microsoft is evil...
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http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/yahoos-wont-work-for-microsoft
The real difference between Microsoft and Google
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| Microsoft can shuffle the deck chairs all it wants.
|
| It can buy Yahoo or YooHoo. It can trot out Steve Ballmer in Spandex and a
| cape.
|
| Microsoft’s problem in competing with Google is far more basic.
|
| It’s organizational.
|
|
| [...]
|
| It’s not about the money. It’s not about the fame. It’s not about the name on
| the door. It’s not about becoming an executive.
|
| It’s about the work. It’s about doing something over the course of just a few
| months and then seeing it online. It’s about trying, and sometimes failing,
| then trying again.
|
| [...]
|
| So far I’ve seen no evidence this is going to happen. I think Microsoft’s bid
| for Yahoo is proof of that. Once the deal goes down, all those smart
| Yahoo-ers will be free to leave. The dumb ones will be left, waiting for
| orders from Redmond.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2025
Microsoft to take case to Yahoo shareholders: report
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| The board believes Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft is trying to take advantage
| of some recent weakness in Yahoo's share price in order to "steal" the
| company, the report said.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-take-case-yahoo-shareholders/story.aspx?guid=%7B7F963245%2D5B26%2D4A77%2D8D18%2D4D2122A9D4AE%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/3dpl6n
Last week:
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| Microsoft is threatening to launch a boardroom coup at Yahoo! within six
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| weeks if the internet search engine fails to accept its $45 billion (£23
| billion) hostile takeover proposal or start serious merger talks, The Times
| has learned.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article3300964.ece?EMC-Bltn=LOXCF1
Options Before Microsoft: Upping Bid; Tender Offer; Hostile Takeover; Pressure
Tactics
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| Hostile board overthrow: This would be the most contentious, and Microsoft
| has indicated its willingness to go through with this if need be: it could
| seek to oust Yahoo's board at its next election; it would have until March 13
| to nominate a new slate of directors. Yahoo has taken "poison pill"
| provisions, and Microsoft have to oust the board to get past these
| provisions.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/paidcontent/080209/1_319741_id.html?.v=1
Microsoft rejects Yahoo! rejection
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| Steve Ballmer still wants to swallow Jerry Yang's company.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/11/microsoft_still_wants_yahoo/
Why Microsoft Should Fret
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| But what if at stake in the battle isn't just Microsoft's position in selling
| ads, but the very survival of its core software business? Microsoft would
| never admit that so much is on the line.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120277476716860601.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo
Microsoft's Last Big Beat: Internet Domination or Death
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| What can $44.6B USD mean? Well, for Microsoft (MSFT) it may mean the cost of
| survival.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/63876-microsoft-s-last-big-beat-internet-domination-or-death?source=yahoo
Microsoft to partners: It's time to change
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| Aiming to rally its partners around the reality of hosted software, Microsoft
| Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner told them it was a matter of financial
| life and death.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6195764.html
Will Microsoft Survive the Next 10 Years?
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| I am not really an expert in this but when I read all the negative
| headlines and articles I ask myself if Microsoft really will survive
| the next 10 years.
|
| [...]
|
| I am pretty sure that the Open Source Community, the new Ubuntu,
| Google and of course Apple are those companies that are ready for
| our century and they will get more and more people that know what
| they really want.
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http://websquirrel.blogspot.com/2007/03/will-microsoft-survive-next-10-years.html
Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
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| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however,
| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought
| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm
Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008? Don't Count On It
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| Vista has certainly been slow out of the gate. Sure, Microsoft is putting the
| operating system on newly shipped systems, but Vista sales didn’t benefit
| from the upgrade surge that previous OSes got upon release. A year after it
| began shipping, less than one percent of corporate desktops are running
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Vista.
| ^^^^^
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/will_windows_vi.html
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