1. despite everything that’s said, i feel microsoft is still very much a ‘the desktop is the computer’ type of company.

   witness how vista and iterations of office are still box/pc-based.

   even bill gate’s book had to be ‘revised’ to incorporate the internet in it’s second edition (i think it famously had only a couple of pages mentioned in the road less travelled).

   until microsoft gets it’s game up and shifts it’s focus from the box to the intangible internet, whatever type of web2.0 is going to be a long time in coming.

   it’s like expecting an old line telco with tons of dedicated copper wiring to throw it all away and embrace VoIP.

   it’s necessary, but not likely until it has to be dragged kicking and screaming to migrate.

   in 2007 i think microsoft’s resources will be spent fixing vista and catching up with the PS3 to focus on any other major acquisitions.

   still we can all dream.

2. Microsoft ~had~ plans of ruling the world way beyond the PC until Google came along and messed everything up.

   – They bought cable companies to own the pipes going into your home.

   – They created the Xbox to gain another foothold in your home. Notice how the Xbox is becoming more PC like? Avg. Joe guy will be using their software ~and~ their hardware for his computing/gaming needs. Goodbye Dell. You’re getting shafted by your partner. I’m sure this device will also become your DVR, Home Theater, everything. 1 device does it all, brought to you by Microsoft.

   – They create the Zune, to gain another step your home.

   – They haven’t quite figured this internet thing out, so I agree with Shoemoney, they will go after Yahoo and screw a good company up.

   See them converging from all areas into one place, our home? If it weren’t for Google, this probably would’ve happened already. Thanks Google for saving us against the evil empire.

3. Microsoft is the evil empire? Oh buddy you just wait, if Google ends up having no real competition in the search engine market. You will know what evil looks like. Google is already getting cocky (QS relevancy anyone?). Trust me, some good competition from the Redmond Giant is exactly what Google needs.

4. Do they have $500 billion?

5. they would need over 50Billion to pull this off. Yahoo’s market cap lest we forget was close to 35bill recently.

6. umm you dont need 100% of someones market cap to take them over….

7. Yahoo: Market Cap 36.65B
   Microsoft Market Cap 296.47B

   $500 billion might be a bit on the high side.

8. Catching up to the PS3? Microsoft is already destroying Sony. Microsoft is a SOFTWARE company not a “the desktop is the computer type of company” (lol), Microsoft can and probably will do well ANYWHERE where the is/can be software, because the have the bucks and the talent.

9. Ok, lets all jump on the “hate Microsoft” bandwagon, give it a rest people, just because they are #1 means they have to be perfect, despite popular opinion, they are human too! Oh and Yahoo being a company to “screw up”? Buddy, get your facts straight, Yahoo has been going down hill for more than a year now and is at its lowest its ever been, it really cant be screwed up anymore.

10. Hey Dru and Steven, you’re the “Avg. Joe” I was referring to in my post. Go MS fanboys.

11. and what prise do you think can be proposed?

12. […] read more | digg story […]

13. Whoever wrote this tripe needs to learn how to spell and construct sentences. It’s hard to take someone seriously when he writes worse than a typical 9-year-old.

14. 10 razones por las que Microsoft adquiriría Yahoo el 2007…

    Debido a la fuerza creciente de Google, Microsoft tiene 10 razones para adquirir a Yahoo si realmente quiere seguir estando en la cabeza del mercado.
    El artículo está en inglés aunque una traducción puede ser ésta
    …

15. Ya good question.

16. No MS doesnt need to make purely web based apps because not everyone wants everything on the web. Some things are great for web only but honestly id rather have 99% of my apps on my home pc where i know they are safe and secure.

    Whats your PS3 comment about, that right there shows you have no clue what your talking about..

17. Re: #1 problem, you should try Live search these days. I am NOT saying it is as good as Google, but it is FAR better than it used to be (the change seems to have been made ~6 weeks ago).

    That being said, I don’t disagree with the theory here. I think Ask.com might also be in the running for an MSN-only aquisition.

18. No it wont happen, Yahoo will not let Microsoft take over them, because they know Microsoft don’t do anything good in the Internet right now. Microsoft its already a too big company to move fast like Google do right now.

    Sorry for my English, its not my first language 😉

19. Holy Crap you write horribly. Their for people. There for place.

20. Microsoft will never buy Yahoo. I’ll personally sit down and eat my hat if they do.

    Why? In a nutshell, Microsoft doesn’t like to pay high. Too smart for that. Microsoft doesn’t buy giants. Microsoft destroy them from the inside.

    Gates is a gifted poker player and Microsoft’s history reveals their ingenius tactics when it comes to crushing one giant competitor after another without shelling a dime (Xerox-IBM, Apple, Netscape, Borland etc.)

    In an attempt to keep this comment short, I’ll stick to a single story –

    It was the early 90’s. Every single software developer was using Borland to develop computer programs. I had Borland posters on my wall. We loved them! Borland had the best IDE (Integrated Development Environment), best tools, best support. Microsoft had a sluggish development environment that was slow, buggy and worthless.

    Borland controlled 92% of the market. It was obvious that Microsoft had to do something to gain market share.

    Everyone were certain Borland (then a $400M company) is going to be acquired by Microsoft. There was simply no way Microsoft could catch-up, with the Microsoft product lagging 3 years behind Borland’s in features and functionality.

    What did Microsoft do? Did Microsoft acquire Borland? No.
    Did Microsoft approach Borland for M&A talks? No.
    Did Microsoft try to further develop their IDE/algorithms until it was better than Borland? No.

    Microsoft hired a head-hunting team who approached the top 6 software developers in Borland at the time and offered all 6 an offer they simply can’t refuse.

    5 of the 6 left Borland and joined the ranks of Microsoft.

    Within exactly 10 months, Microsoft came out with the new MSDEV studio, incorporating all the features Borland had (autocomplete, built-in debugger). 2 years later, Borland’s market share fell to 9% with Microsoft clearly dominating the market.

    This is a single story however the patterns, tactics and technique have been followed by Microsoft throughout the years.

    Microsoft is not a software development company. Microsoft is a well oiled technology capitalization machine. To this date, no other company has come close to Microsoft’s capability of converting sourcecode to cash.

21. heh, thank you, I was just about to write the same thing myself.

22. Thank God Yahoo is being coaxed to merge by a borderline illiterate person who cannot be bothered to get his copy cleaned up before pushing it on all of us.

23. i agree. i came here through digg expecting a serious article. if you are going to attempt to write a blog like this in english then:
    1) learn the language, spelling and grammar included
    2) have your buddies check over what your gonna post
    3) set up a blog
    4) post away
    5) get dugg

    end result, you sound credible and have a readable blog.

24. This will all end with crying.

25. This will be really interesting. If Microsoft does acquire Yahoo!, I think they can really get closer to dominating the internet. I even think Yahoo! could replace Windows Live and & MSN.

26. Put your money where mouth is and not where you shoe is.

    If you are wrong, you jump in the hudson river fully clothed, but if you are right, we will worship the money your shoes walk on.

    BTW, my opinion, they better off staying software, because alot of internet media companies are switching to MACs as part of the corporate strategy agasint M$. Pretty interesting, and I am putting my money on APPLE.

27. I think if Microsoft was bought by Yahoo a lot of people in Yahoo would leave and go to Google.

    Live totally sucks. Its even worse than their old search engine. It just goes to show that money can’t always by talent.

    Microsoft has plateaued and from now on will be like IBM having its ups and downs and trying to keep up with whoever is the new kid on the block.

    As for you j@rkoffs moaning about grammar and spelling get a life.

28. incase you don’t know jeremy (shoemoney) he’s one of the bigger search engine marketers. i think if anyone would be credible to write a blurb about this topic it would be him.

    also.. i know several executives that run huge corporations and they are some of the shittiest typers/spellers/grammarists in the world.

    great visionaries != great writers.

    and with that being said good one jeremy 🙂 //g

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30. This is interesting, but this guy would have a lot more credibility if he learned the difference between “their” and “there”.

31. I like Mike Peters’ play. MS should start a recruiting drive for key Yahoo people.

    But I think they should be prepared to buy it on the spot, because letting a devalued Yahoo fall into Google’s hands would be bad news for MS

32. Ever hear of proof reading?

33. I doubt Microsoft will purchase Yahoo at their current price. Maybe in a few years when they’re in serious financial trouble.

    I’m not a “fanboy” of Microsoft but I do respect them more than any other company in America. Each year the Gates Foundation donates more money to public projects than Google, Apple, Oracle, IBM, etc. combined. That really says something about them. I hope you take that into consideration when you choose to bash them because they aren’t the best at everything.

34. You got the point 🙂
    I always have to think of the time when MS bought “dos” for $50000 (thats nothing!) to have an OS for IBM… 😉

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36. that’s just stupid, they could not pay 1.64 bil for youtube where they will get money for Yahoo.

37. […] It’s hard to tell whether Shoemoney wrote it for the links or whether he really thinks it’s a possibility, but he’s written a rather convincing article comprised of the 10 reasons why Microsoft will acquire Yahoo!. […]

38. […] There’s a interesting post over at the Shoemoney blog where Jeremy Shoemaker gives 10 reasons why he believes Microsoft will make a move to purchase Yahoo. […]

39. You forgot No # 11
    Yahoo! Mesenger merge with f…n Micro$oft MESS enger.

    Microsuck err micro$oft sucks, they cant even make their
    job (winOS) they so suck at the internet also but they got money like hell so if Yahoo sells their company for money new name will be Yahell and another big internet brand will be die so what ? Mr G will rule the internet.

    a Yahoo Fan

40. […] Shoemoney makes a great post as to why Microsoft should acquire Yahoo! Even though it’d be a good move for MS, I don’t think it’s going to happen, and I don’t think Yahoo! would go for it – but if the check is big enough… […]

41. Hmm, I imagine Yahoo is too pricey for Microsoft. Yahoo is not doing that badly right now….

42. eventually almost all applications will become web based.

    remember the days when updates were done via floppy or CD.

    what will form the basis for the new digital divide is not just whether someone has computers, but whether it’s linked to the internet.

    the fact that you’re reading this blog, which is a hosted application shows that connectivity will increasingly be important as everything shift to the internet. maybe not today, but if you don’t see the trend coming, you’re in for a surprised.

    ps: go audit your own PC. if you’re surfing, blogging, instant messaging, online gaming and emailing, you sure as hell as using online-enabled apps more than 1% of the time.

43. eventually almost all applications will become web based.

    remember the days when updates were done via floppy or CD.

    what will form the basis for the new digital divide is not just whether someone has computers, but whether it’s linked to the internet.

    the fact that you’re reading this blog, which is a hosted application shows that connectivity will increasingly be important as everything shift to the internet. maybe not today, but if you don’t see the trend coming, you’re in for a surprised.

    ps: go audit your own PC. if you’re surfing, blogging, instant messaging, online gaming and emailing, you sure as hell are using online-enabled apps more than 1% of the time.

44. […] With Google breaking away from the pack does Microsoft have any chance to compete? Well if Microsoft acquires Yahoo they do. Here are ten reasons why they will acquire Yahoo in 2007.read more | digg story […]

45. Yeah, they really crushed Apple and IBM.

    Or not.

46. […] read more | digg story […]

47. Wow, you really need to proofread your work before you post it on the internet. How can anyone take you seriously when your writing has the most basic of grammatical errors?

48. […] They don’t need to. […]

49. […] Shoemoney has recently posted a really interesting article on his website which was titled “10 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Acquire Yahoo! in 2007.” To me, this has made a lot of sense, and honestly think it is a good idea, and would be an excellent decision for Microsoft to acquire Yahoo!. […]

50. Credibility! Go away you stupid nose digger.

51. […] Shemoney made a very interesting post about why he thinks Microsoft will buy Yahoo! in 2007, he listed 10 reasons for this assumption, and I have to agree with him, if you’ve seen the effort that Microsoft is putting to get a piece of the contextual market pie you would understand, they have been trying and spending lots on their new ADcenter but its just not working out for numerous reasons, mostly because their search engine doesn’t bring in any sufficient search volume for the advertisers. […]

52. I find it amusing that neither flashape nor tim otoole used a capital letter between them. And using words like “gonna” doesn’t exactly make you sound credible, Tim.

53. […] Being a YaHOO shareholder, you might think I’d be in favor of Microsoft buying them, but I’m not. Jeremy Schoemaker produces a crystal ball and attempts to make a case for 10 reasons why Microsoft will acquire Yahoo next year. It isn’t completely without merit, but here’s a point by point rebuttal. Jeremy’s points are bolded. […]

54. I agree with others who have said ppl from yahoo will go to greener grass if MS buys them.

55. hello linkbait, nice job! To all the folks bitching about grammar, you missed the point of the article entirely.

56. […] Microsoft won’t acquire Yahoo! (I’m not saying it’s not a good move, I’m just saying it won’t happen). […]

57. Shoe,
    Good post, but I doubt that Yahoo will be bought by M$ even if I think your arguments make sense. I think more of an extensive cooperation between the two companies is realistic for 2007. It’s still to early to make predictions like yours.

    My main reason why it won’t happen:
    Why would MSN develop and run their own Adcenter (incl. syndication) with an immense staff if they are planning to take over the entire YSM division? It does not make sense for an “old school” company like M$

58. Come to think of it, the new IE7 reads “Windows Internet Explorer provided by Yahoo”. For MS to give Yahoo that level of control of IE, then I am inclined to agree to a degree with Shoe Money. Something is coming up in 2007 with these 2, but not fully sure what.

59. And what do you think about Yahoo messanger in this case? ) Would M$ kill this project?

60. What Google, Yahoo, and MSN will buy in 2007 and why……

    This past week, Darren Rowse put his readers up to creating fearless predictions for 2007. While, so far, I think Brandon Wood has the best set of predictions (especially where we agree ), I see another series of emerging trends that will influence y…

61. […] Bold Prediction #1 — Convergence breeds consolidation. As many MSM companies seek to regain lost share, the easiest place to turn are the new media sources they’re losing that share to. We’ve already seen it with Fox purchasing MySpace and the New York Times Company’s spate of acquisitions, including About.com. That acquisition alone added “…22 million monthly users to the Times Company’s 13 million…from The New York Times, The Boston Globe and more than 40 other Web sites.” Of course, old media might represent the hunted, not the hunter. Google’s purchase of YouTube represents (functionally) a new media player seeking to gain control of the audience as the box from which viewers consume content shifts from TV to computer. With its ready cash reserves available, don’t be surprised if Google picks up its own MSM networks, instead of the other way ’round. CBS, which already owns a significant share of viewers on YouTube, might make for an attractive buyout target for Google. Notably, CBS’ content on YouTube has led to “…an increase in their TV viewership, not a decrease as many networks first feared.” It’s even possible Google could buy The New York Times Company outright. Don’t expect Yahoo and Microsoft to sit idly by while this is going on, either. MSNBC might have greater meaning now than in the past for both its parents. Or Microsoft and Yahoo might simply merge. […]

62. Why would Google build their own Google video when they are going to buy Youtube.

    Its never “too early” to make predictions, unless you fear being wrong and want to wait until it already happened.

63. […] 10 Gründe, wieso Microsoft Yahoo 2007 kaufen wird – macht Sinn! […]

64. I’m down with anything that Microsoft and Yahoo do together. Unfortunately I’m not a stockholder in either so, I guess their main target will be “G”‘s audience and product services.

65. I want to see this happen.

66. Are you even serious? Didn’t crush Apple? What’s their OS marketshare again?

67. These are great reasons why that might happen. If they do buy Yahoo! I hope they dump their MSN search. I hate that thing although it has its purposes for us black hat’s.

68. Not to mention the use of commas where they didn’t belong. Anyone can be critical of grammatical errors when they’re trying to hate on “something”. 😉

69. It’s not that they couldn’t, it’s that they “didn’t”. We all know Microsoft has left plenty of opportunities to others when they could have made a major impact in a new area. Oh well, they’re still making money.

70. Actually, if I’m not mistaken, MSN Adcenter was originally “released” in beta well over a year and a half ago. They even had the opportunity to use MSN AdCenter but chose to sign another deal with Yahoo! (or Overture) so they could continue to test their product.

    This is nothing new with big Corporations as Dillsmack even mentioned above — Google has done this MANY times. Grab what’s hot if you can afford it…why try to reinvent the wheel when you can buy a set for cheaper?

71. […] Many out there have talked about Microsoft and their possibility of acquiring Yahoo to help compete against Google in the search and online space. Jeremy Shoemaker gave 10 reasons why they would buy yahoo but I’m not sure it is going to happen or execute well if it does. […]

72. Just wanted to say congrats on gathering over 800 Diggs!

73. […] My Note — Shoemoney’s reasoning makes sense and I am positive that Microsoft may actually try to acquire Yahoo! On Google and Microsoft’s Online Frontier […]

74. […] The Informative Interaction: Here’s where you start a dialogue with the blogger. You take the blogger or another blog commenter’s point and you run with it. You extend or bring the discussion along a different path. You start a debate/discussion/argument (depending on the intensity). Take a look at the comments for Shoemoney’s recent “10 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Aquire Yahoo In 2007“ […]

75. Lot of digs there! Great list here too… I’m sure we’ll see a few “acquisitions” in 2007 as the big names fight for more of the internet audience.

76. Proofreading is one word. Thanks for playing.

77. I agree on Yahoo’s support. I had an issue with them, and not only did I have the ability to call them, but they actually called me first and took care of everything for me. It makes you feel a lot more comfortable if and when problems arise.

78. […] If Microsoft and Yahoo don’t substantially change their hierarchic decision structure and open their managerial structures, they will loose substantial market share in 2007. And at this point it won’t help Microsoft to buy Yahoo, as they’re both doomed. […]

79. Interesting, very interesting.

80. Nice inforamtion, Thanks for posting.

81. […] It’s been suggested that Microsoft should acquire Yahoo! – and there are compelling business reasons for doing so. […]

82. […] 2) Microsoft will buy a Search Engine Company to improve Live. Its clear they have given up there development of Live search. Its really sad to cause they have this great product with AdCenter and they send quality leads but they just have no volume =(. So ok what search engines are out there to buy? Well Ask is no longer on the table (even tho I am not that big of fan of ask) but then there are some up and comers with some cool technology like chacha.com. Hey what about Yahoo? Ohhh I already posted about that! […]

83. […] Chris Sherman from over at SearchEngineLand.com posted an interview published over at the ZDNET BLOG. Interesting read – with all the attention focused on Google taking over the world, Yahoo being acquired by MSN, and Linkedin taking over the social networking space for geeks like me [Herein is my linkedin profile page]. […]

84. […] Lets take a quick look at SMO results over at shoemoney.com. Jeremy released a blog post about 10 reasons why Microsoft will aquire Yahoo! in 2007 and soon after that released his traffic stats which shows almost a 100% boost in his traffic from reaching the first page of digg. These results are being seen all over the web but the problem I see is that the boost of immediate traffic is extremely fast BUT the drop in traffic is also fast. Darren Rowse posted a pretty interesting article on how to cultivate your digg traffic into long term traffic which is a great resource for anyone looking to become successful as an SMO. […]

85. […] All Time – 10 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Aquire Yahoo In 2007 […]

86. […] good, even when compared with Googles, could Yahoo be the underdog in the game or are MSN going to piggyback the […]

87. Microsoft and Yahoo could do it. But they have to beat google to the next step. You have to be an idiot not to see it. The next major evolution in computing is on the horizon. 100% online operating environment for end users. This is what the world wants and needs. A 100% globally accessible desktop work/play environment (Like a laptop that you don’t have to bring with you everywhere). It needs to be totally customizable like a myspace page but functional so you can work on/with it. The benefits are endless.
    1. Less hardware needed for the end user.
    2. Your data is safely stored in data centers.
    3. It will no longer be your responsibility to keep your software up to date and virus/add free.
    4. All you essentially will need to buy is a screen/mouse/keyboard and a networking card.
    6. Hardware limitation become the problem of the service provider and not the end user.
    7. You can access your work/music/entertainment from any terminal world wide with out compatibility issues.
    8. One central point of interface to all of the above for the user.
    9. No more re-formating your hard-drive.
    10. No more buying a new PC to upgrade to the latest software.
    11. Access to your personal desktop from your terminal in your hotel room, the airport, your moms house, your cell phone. The same exact desktop every time.

    For those of you who think your smart and are going to reply about how terminal based OS’s already exist, (you are the kind of people who are going to miss the bus).

    Think about all the opportunity to capitalized/monetize here. You can offer a basic service for free with ads, essentially the bait. Then charge for extended software application packages, and extended hardware capacity.

    The point of my rant is that if M$ teamed up with Yahoo and they were able to beat google to the “Revolution of the OS” then maybe they would both stand a chance at surviving.

88. […] + Yahoo. Jeremy Schoemaker broached this in mid-Dec listing 10 reasons why MS will acquire Yahoo in 2007. Basically he suggests that […]

89. […] all intensive purposes is just not that valuable anymore. But I have to agree with Shoemoney, that Microsoft should and will buy Yahoo in 2007. I think it will be one of the wisest moves any company trying to gain ground in the search […]

90. […] Shoemoney first predicted that Yahoo would be acquired by Microsoft in 2007, I thought he was right on the money (no pun intended … okay, maybe a […]

91. […] failed to mention that this was predicted to happen already in 2007 according to shoestradamus. Here is my 10 reasons why Microsoft will acquire Yahoo In 2007 That I posted last […]

92. […] and Yahoo…a No-Brainer? Here is ShoeMoney’s post from December, 2006 10 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Acquire Yahoo in 2007. Reading through his reasons, this deal does seem like a no brainer. Microsoft has missed the boat […]

93. […] The rumor is getting hot right now according to the New York Times. The merger talk is on. And what are you expect from this merger if it will be. Well, this actually remind me of the Shoemoney post on 16 December last year about 10 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Acquire Yahoo in 2007. […]

94. […] and their volume? I think Microsoft will make a move at Yahoo and its going to happen in 2007. Full story here. __________________ Thanks Rakibuddin Khan Admin $1 link::Back Link Maker::INDEX2010 […]

95. […] y parece que toma cuerpo. Para los que sepáis inglés, aquí os dejo un bonito ejercicio en el que Jeremy Schoemaker propone diez razones por las que nuestro colega Bill querría comprar Yahoo! este […]

96. […] 另一个消息是Shoemoney杜撰的，说Google要收购Yahoo，不过他给出了十大理由 10 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Aquire Yahoo In 2007。 […]

97. Doubt this would happen now that Microsoft just spent $6 billion on aQuantive.

98. Microsoft building a new search engine. Maybe this search be better than Google and Yahoo?

99. Hmm, i would like to see how each of them compete then..

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102. […] a effort to try to stop all the emails asking me to predict the future I will acknowledge that I predicted the Microsoft buying Yahoo in my 2007 predictions (made december 16th, 2006). I also included 10 reasons why it would happen and some people thought […]

103. […] …περίπου, άλλα δε θ’αργήσει να γίνει. Η Yahoo ήδη δέχτηκε μια μικρή βοήθεια 44,6 Δις. Δολαρίων. Αυτό που μου άρεσε περισσότερο στην ιστορία αυτή είναι ότι ο Shoemaker το είχε προβλέψει πριν από αρκετούς μήνες. […]

104. Prediction confirmed. Next.

105. […] una idea approfondita del motivo per cui Microsoft tenti di acquisire Yahoo, basta che si legga questo post di Shoemoney, datato 16 dicembre 2006 (avete letto bene duemilasei), confermato dal post di John Battelle del 13 […]

107. […] But there were a couple more reasons (tip of the hat to Shoemoney): […]

108. Wow, Microsoft never ceases to amaze me…

109. Oh, and neither does Yahoo, heh

110. […] 10 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Aquire Yahoo In 2007 Microsoft sat back while Google showed everyone how to take a search engine from 2 kinds having fun to a top 20 American company. How did they do it? Well just look at their revenue numbers and you will see a massive percentage comes from the Adwords & Adsense products. Now Microsoft is trying to get into the online advertising game but can they hope to compete without acquiring Yahoo and their volume? I think Microsoft will make a move at Yahoo and its going to happen in 2007. […]

111. I think microsoft will continue to attempt to aquire yahoo for sure.

112. despite everything that’s said, i feel microsoft is still very much a ‘the desktop is the computer’ type of company.

113. Microsoft hired a head-hunting team who approached the top 6 software developers in Borland at the time and offered all 6 an offer they simply can’t refuse.

     5 of the 6 left Borland and joined the ranks of Microsoft.

     Within exactly 10 months, Microsoft came out with the new MSDEV studio, incorporating all the features Borland had (autocomplete, built-in debugger). 2 years later, Borland’s market share fell to 9% with Microsoft clearly dominating the market.

     This is a single story however the patterns, tactics and technique have been followed by Microsoft throughout the years.

     Microsoft is not a software development company. Microsoft is a well oiled technology capitalization machine. To this date, no other company has come close to Microsoft’s capability of converting sourcecode to cash.

114. It’s been almost 3 years now and Microsoft has still not acquired Yahoo. Even though it may seem like a right fit, they are most likely scared of taking on the powerhouse (Google).

     Johnny Marion

115. It’s 2 years from that event now and looking back, it’s still a mystery why Yahoo won’t accept the offer. If Yahoo has accepted that offer, probably Google would now face a huge threat.

     Now that it doesn’t happen, Google will continue to be the search king and microsoft and yahoo can only stand aside and be crushed by Google.

116. A Good wordpress post, have a good evening.

117. So, It’s been almost 3 years now and Microsoft has still not acquired Yahoo. Google will continue to be the search king.

118. Yahoo has the best free web mail service if you ask me!

119. That is true Anna!

120. Yahoo is the best!!

121. Good question…

122. Yahoo is no1!

123. I can give you 1000 reasons ;D
     Yahoo is the best!

124. So, It’s been almost 3 years now and Microsoft has still not acquired Yahoo. Google will continue to be the search king.

125. I love YAHOO! 🙂

126. yahoo mail is the best of all..Microsoft is far away

127. Yahoo is best b a long shot!

128. its 2010 Yahoo is still not owned by Microsoft..lol

129. I like yahoo mail…not as good as gmail though

130. Y mail is rubbish, Google is the man!

131. […] at this point it won’t help Microsoft to buy Yahoo, as a bigger Microsoft will be an even less flexible, less democratic […]

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