____/ ~flyer~ on Monday 05 May 2008 03:34 : \____
> 7 wrote:
>> Micoshaft fraudster Ezekiel wrote on behalf of Half Wits from Micoshaft
>> Corporation:
>>
>>> Yahoo investors will be very distraught to see YHOO stock price to plummet
>>> tomorrow morning. Most are expecting a drop of somewhere in the 25-35%
>>> range. As a stock, YHOO was trading in the "teens" before Microsoft
>>> offered $31/share. Now that Microsoft is walking away, expect the price to
>>> plummet from the $30 range back down into the teens.
>>
>>
>>
>> I doubt any of this.
>>
>> Yahoo$ would piss on micoshaft if they decide to release
>> a version of !Yahoo Linux and 100Mb ISP with video download shop.
>>
>> --
>>
>> !Yahoo !announces !Yahoo !Linux
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> !Yahoo !announced !today that it is moving into the Linux
>> distro market following the footsteps of Ubuntu, Micoshaft Corporation,
>> Appil, Mandriva and Red Hat.
>>
>> !Yahoo claimed this is in direct response to the Micoshaft takeover bid. Its
>> a bad idea for any business to get into bed with Micoshaft - history has
>> shown it doesn't provide any shareholder value.
>> !Yahoo claims moving into the Linux distro business is THE ONE THING
>> that will hurt Micoshaft Corporation and that is why Micoshaft
>> Corporation was keen to buy out Yahoo.
>>
>> !Chairman of !Yahoo announced that after a strategic
>> review of the market, it was logical that !Yahoo should move
>> into the Linux distro business. It has one of the largest software
>> developer resource outside of the main distro makers that it wasn't going
>> anywhere fast of the dot com bust and because of the shrinking market
>> opportunities in the on-line internet business.
>>
>> !Chairman !Yahoo said "Our long term plan is to move into the Linux distro
>> market and leverage that to buy up and concentrate on high speed
>> cable and internet operations and engage in very high speed bandwidth
>> delivery to the home." High bandwidth high definition high frame rate
>> video is where all the action will be in 2012 and we want to be
>> right there with our own !Yahoo Linux distro and Linux applications
>> experiences delivered through the Internet. Its a highly cost effective
>> and efficient operation as Linux has reached the tipping point with
>> all the applications and infrastructure project. Our contributions
>> will become minimal - just bare necessary expenditure and guidance
>> to steer existing projects to deliver a unified !Yahoo Linux experience.
>> Customers will be able to buy a PC, install !Yahoo Linux and be empowered
>> with everything from high definition high speed TV to e-mail, chat, video
>> chat, free phone internet VoIP calls, buy movies and music on-line at
>> very high speed. It also allows expansion of the on-line ad business into
>> TV-ads and interactive feedback with customers. Since the software
>> can be downloaded and upgraded, interactive TV will be a next generation
>> experience allowing real time feed back of what customers thought about
>> the ads and well as purchase requests generated by customers.
>>
>> The TV will be repackaged into a youtube like experience with users
>> being able to download and watch a fixed collection of programmes
>> as often as they like for $30 per month. You don't have to buy !Yahoo Linux.
>> We will package everything up for other distro makers to incorporate
>> or for users to download and use in the open source tradition. Users
>> just pay a fixed fee for services just like all other customers and the full
>> !Yahoo and TV experience will be delivered to their home. Of course other
>> internet service providers will have to provide the massive unconteded
>> 100mbit services or we will step in and offer the same services. Some of
>> our services depend on customer PCs being turned into servers in
>> the bittorrent tradition and giving up half their
>> their substantial upload bandwidth to deliver services to our other
>> customers dotted around the network so that we don't have centralized
>> servers and the huge expenses that go with it. All our services
>> will be distributed and key to that is equal download and upload
>> speeds which is a service we intend to offer to develop our business.
>>
>> Never will TV and internet experience will have such an upheaval.
>> Our share holders will get far more dividends and shareholder
>> value with our business models than by selling out.
>>
>> We think a lot of chair tossing will go on in Redmond tonight.
>
> I agree with you.
>
> Stay AWAY from the MS scum and then rebuild.
>
> MS just kills everything it touches.
Steve Ballmer touches himself a lot. Just watch how he rubs the back of his
neck like a primate several times a minutes, even in interviews. When
Microsoft's CEO touched himself (Ballmer appointment was in 2001, IIRC) the
loss of the company's savings began.
Steve Ballmer's Nine Year Retirement Plan
,----[ Quote ]
| Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft this year and the exec he left in
| charge, Steve Ballmer, is ready to leave in nine years.
`----
http://blogs.eweek.com/cebit/content/cebit/steve_ballmers_nine_year_retirement_plan.html
Does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer need an intervention?
,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may need an intervention before this obsession
| with Yahoo–which is really about an obsession over Google–spins out of
| control.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8597
Is Microsoft's Ballmer a bad dealmaker?
,----[ Quote ]
| The bid for Yahoo that helped sink the market value of Microsoft (MSFT) by
| more than $20 billion in one day in early February is one of the latest in a
| string of acquisitions and major investment stakes Microsoft has initiated
| since CEO Steve Ballmer took over in 2000 that have been punished by the
| stock market as misjudgments.
|
| "Some learn more quickly than others. It doesn't look like Mr. Ballmer is
| learning that quickly," says UCLA Anderson School of Management professor
| Richard Roll, lead author of a study that analyzed 11 years of merger and
| acquisition announcements by 2,589 CEOs at 1,740 U.S. companies.
`----
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/corporatenews/2008-04-23-ballmer_N.htm
UCLA Professor: Microsoft CEO Ballmer a ‘hubris-infected serial acquirer’ with
dismal track record
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/16916/
Bear Stearns's Advice To Microsoft
,----[ Quote ]
| Co-founder Bill Gates can't be thrilled with watching
| Ballmer drain the company's cash. He didn't get so rich by buying at the top
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| of the market.
`----
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/03/17/microsoft-bear-stearns-tech-ebiz-cx_ec_0316msft.html
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
Microsoft's DreamSpark – What a Giveaway
,----[ Quote ]
| The rest of the $44.6bn (£22.3bn) deal would be financed with an undisclosed
| amount of credit.
|
| What that means is that it must squeeze as much money as it can from its
| operations to fund that debt and still pay dividends to shareholders, who
| will be looking for some payback from the Yahoo takeover. Giving away
| software is the last thing it would want to do in these circumstances, and
| the DreamSpark announcement shows just how worried it is about the future.
`----
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveaway
Will Deal-Making Chiefs Ever Learn? Maybe.
,----[ Quote ]
| Mr. Ballmer was considered a “hubris-infected” chief under the study’s
| definition, because of Microsoft’s value-destroying deal to invest $100
| million in Vertical Net in 2000. He followed up with deals for Intertainer
| and BroadBand Office, which were also followed by below-market returns for
| shareholders.
|
| In all, Mr. Ballmer made 15 deals between 2000 and 2002, with an average
| market-adjusted shareholder return of negative 4.59 percent.
`----
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/will-deal-making-chiefs-ever-learn-maybe/index.html
Mergers of Corporate Giants Not Likely to Benefit Consumers
,----[ Quote ]
| “There is little if any evidence that increased corporate size in
| already-large national and international firms produces greater technological
| innovation,” writes Elizabeth Sanders, Professor of Government at Cornell
| University. “To the contrary, it probably leads to less, given lower
| competitive pressures, and the starving of research in debt-burdened
| companies.”
`----
http://mslawnews.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/corporate_mergers/
Can Ballmer pilot Microsoft through a changed tech course?
,----[ Quote ]
| Can Ballmer steer Microsoft out of the roadblocks?
|
| The highly competitive Ballmer, you might say, is the man who cried "nice."
| And like the boy who cried wolf, no one believed him. The software giant's
| attempt to make nice with much of the developer community by opening up its
| APIs for key products was greeted with a jaundiced eye by regulators at the
| powerful European Commission.
|
| However sincere Microsoft's stated change of heart may be, it is becoming
| clearer and clearer that Microsoft -- which knows it has to change -- is
| still struggling to find a fresher path.
|
| What's a poor CEO to do?
|
| Now that Bill Gates has effectively left the building, Ballmer is free to
| transform Microsoft, a job made all the tougher by the enormous reservoir of
| mistrust the company has engendered over the years.
|
| Case in point: the open APIs. Microsoft will give its competitors free access
| to the application programming interfaces and protocols it uses to ensure
| interoperability between its own products, a very significant change in
| business practices.
`----
http://weblog.infoworld.com/tech-bottom-line/archives/2008/02/microsoft_open.html
If Ballmer bolts, who will lead Microsoft?
,----[ Quote ]
| "Hey! Ho! Time for Ballmer to go," a Wired.com headline proclaimed on April
| 29.
|
| My rejoinder: "Hell, no. There are no Softies ready for a promo."
`----
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9932237-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft Should Fire Steve Ballmer, or Hire SuperNanny. Or Both.
,----[ Quote ]
| What should happen is this: Ballmer should re-canvass Yahoo's largest
| shareholders and ask what firm price in cash would get them on-board, and
| then offer it. No more futzing through middlemen bankers, just ask and
| deliver. I doubt this will happen -- Ballmer is caught up among internal
| politics, his own increasing impotence, and childish Yahoo intransigence --
| so he is stuck and looking more and like someone who keeps threatening to
| ground his kids, but never does. As we have all learned from watching
| SuperNanny, the trouble is rarely with the kids; it's almost always the
| nitwit parents.
|
| Such is the case here, so my recipe for action? Fire Ballmer. Think how
| quickly things would change at Microsoft, and in this deal. And then hire
| SuperNanny and film some Microsoft meetings. I'd watch.
`----
http://seekingalpha.com/article/74460-microsoft-should-fire-steve-ballmer-or-hire-supernanny-or-both
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