MS offering to buy out Yahoo

I just read this article on ZDNet and it made me think. I have two yahoo accounts and yahoo messenger and this really makes me want to get rid of them ASAP. I do not like to use any MS based email or Applications if I can help it (besides Office as it seems to be a universal format).

I was curious what people thought about the potential for this if it would help / hurt the search engine, compete more with google, etc... It seems as is MS wants to obtain all they can to dominate the entire industry. As it stands they have a lock on PCs, software, vehicles more and more, and now they could potentially add searching to their list.

I don't like Yahoo anyway so I don't care if MS buys them. If they were trying to buy google, then I would be concerned.

I am not a fan of Yahoo but it give MS more power that they don't need .... I use them for junk mail and stuff i don't wanna see on a daily basis.

Did MS gain any power when they bought Hotmail?

I just checked the stocks, as of now, yahoo's is up 8 points

When they bought hotmail they suddenly had a useful Webmail/POP system. MSN had been tiny (and disliked) up until that point, read an interview with the Hotmail founder recently, interesting-ish.

I'm a moderate flickr, and heavy del.icio.us user, what will happen to them? And can anyone recommend alternatives? What will happen to YUI?
If I were the founder of Flickr or del.icio.us I'd be so angry - part of their deals was that they'd be reun independently, and it works really well. Pretty such MS are going to ruin everything. Gah!

I use flickr alot as welll ... not like it matters as it will just kill all my myspace comments to people, but I also use it for posting images I want as my desktop and photo sharing ... Guess I got a plan for the weekend ...

This would mean the majority of spam would be comming from one set of servers instead of two, right ?

Took the words right out of my mouth!

Google would never sell to microsoft anyway, But as for them buying yahoo it does not bother me, Yahoo In my eyes are going down hill.

To me it spells that Microsoft is concerned about losing their grip on the industry, and they want to get back in the game again by broadening their portfolio. Personally I don't want the takeover to go ahead - Though I'd have a lot more to say if they were looking at google.

I wouldnt be worried If they looked at google, Becuase google would never sell to MS, And If they did google would never sell to them, Unless over night google became bankrupt, Which will never happen

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/ ... ernet.html

Google are not happy.

If google had any brains, they would have tried to get Yahoo first. Both google and MS have a large amounts of accumulated capital and not a large amount of reinvestment opportunities. That is not unusual in a capitalist society especially when there is underconsumption as there is now.

So, we have one capitalist complaining that the other capitalist beat them to the punch. Well, too bad. That's the way it goes. Maybe google should make an offer of their own. They certainly have the money.

I wouldn't have thought Google could buy Yahoo, given then they would have a hold over the market share...