Because the Last Aquisition Went So Well...- February 26, 2008 Check-in on Yahoo: BusinessWeek has a small take on Kevin Johnson's message to Microsoft and Yahoo employees. A number of articles have been posted putting this email in the light of "we're not going to be firing anybody! Please, don't leave, we luv you all and we have someplace to squeeze you in!" After our own CEO basically lied to his own senior leadership regarding the Yahoo acquisition, I'm not buying anything they are selling because their agenda, whatever it is, is built on...http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/02/because-last-aquisition-went-so-well.html Some Quick Quips - Yahoo, 86, and MSPoll- February 18, 2008 Just some quick quips:yahoo... Sorry, I can't get up the enthusiasm to put the exclamation point into Yahoo anymore. So this past week had a number of voluntary and involuntary exits from Yahoo. Mr. Yang calls out, "White Knight Anyone Anyone" and the Yahoo board gets restless.An interesting bit comes from Joe Rosenberg in Barron's. The summary Microsoft bid for Yahoo makes no sense. Some interesting snippets:"It's a bad refection on Ballmer that he's willing to pay a ridiculous price for...http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/02/some-quick-quips-yahoo-86-and-mspoll.html Microsoft's Yahoo! Acquisition is Bold. And Dumb.- February 10, 2008 Please, Yahoo!: fight to stay independent. Or at least tear yourself apart and pop a couple of poison pills to go out on your own terms before this goes much further. Yeah, I've got your double-suck cake for you: one layer Yahoo!, one layer Microsoft.I was on the internal Microsoftie bandwagon that Steve Ballmer was steering not too long ago that an acquisition of Yahoo! didn't make sense for Microsoft. So when the unsolicited offer went through, I was like a whole bunch of other confused...http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/02/microsofts-yahoo-acquisition-is-bold.html Microsoft and Yahoo! -- Stay on Target- February 3, 2008 We Microsofties and Yahoos just entered some interesting times. Thank goodness we can take a break from talking about Win7 M1 leaks for a while. And thanks for the quality of comments in the previous post.(Update: Google just posted about Yahoo! and Microsoft: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet - things are going to get real interesting.) Here's a check-in on what TechMeme looked like at the end of the day on Friday the first. I'm not even going to begin to try to point to interesting...http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/02/microsoft-and-yahoo-stay-on-target.html Microsoft + Yahoo! = Microsoft - $44,600,000,000- February 1, 2008 Oy.My first reaction: "That's a lot to pay for flickr."I'm surprised yet not surprised. Internally, a number of us had heard reasons from Steve Ballmer why a Yahoo! acquisition didn't make sense. One that sticks in my mind right now is how if we acquired Yahoo! - such a big company - we'd have to naturally have layoffs within Microsoft to accommodate it.Maybe there are HR people wandering around Microsoft this morning asking, "What color slip did you say Pink"Man, if I was in the Online...http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/02/microsoft-yahoo-microsoft-44600000000.html |