Investor says Microsoft's Yahoo offer high enough
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| Money manager Bob Olstein, who owns about 1 million shares of Microsoft, is
| urging the company to resist pressure to raise its $31 dollar per share offer
| for Yahoo and to make it an all-cash deal.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6230477.html
Microsoft's Yahoo bid: News Corp. as white knight?
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| The Journal reports that News Corp. would get as much as a 20 percent stake
| in Yahoo under the possible deal. On News Corp.'s Feb. 4 conference call,
| Chairman Rupert Murdoch said the company was "definitely not going to make a
| bid for Yahoo," essentially ruling out a full acquisition, but not
| necessarily ruling out a partnership.
|
| [...]
|
| Meanwhile, Reuters reports that money manager Bob Olstein, owner of about 1
| million Microsoft shares, is urging the company to refrain from raising its
| Yahoo bid.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/131842.asp?source=rss
Report: News Corp., Yahoo in talks to fend off Microsoft
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| Yahoo is talking to News Corp. about a combination to fend off Microsoft's
| advances, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=676337494&rid=-50
Microsoft will perish either way (links below), but at least it might not take
Yahoo down /with/ it.
Yesterday:
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
Last week:
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
Related:
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
P. Graham: Microsoft is Dead
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| A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking
| to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo.
| I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of
| Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media
| company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face
| and realized he didn't understand. It was as if I'd told him how much
| girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 80s. Barry who?
|
| Microsoft? He didn't say anything, but I could tell he didn't quite
| believe anyone would be frightened of them.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
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