Google And Microsoft Cross Swords Over Yahoo!

watzinaneihm writes "In a blog post Google has called Yahoo/Microsoft merger bad for the future of the internet. It is worried about the number of email and IM accounts this merged entity would control. Microsoft has countered with the argument that Google is actually the big bully in this instance, with most of the search market already tied up. The New York Times, in the meantime, has accused Google of a Microsoft fixation."

Re:Microsoft fixation?

[Stormwatch]

The day they're buying Ubuntu (and make a *nix based system part of their supported portfolio) would be the day that marks their end.

They had one before. Ever heard of Xenix?

Microsoft + Yahoo = Microsoft

[Nomen Publicus]

Microsoft has no interest in keeping yahoo as a distinct set of services. Every Yahoo service that has a Microsoft equivalent will be absorbed. The remains will be buried. This is just a very expensive land grab - the last echo of the dot.com boom.

If it goes ahead it will be hugely disruptive of Microsoft as various in-house factions battle to increase their own influence and grab as much of the meat off the Yahoo bones as they can.

Re:Microsoft fixation?

[morgan_greywolf]

. However this was a long time ago and they did not really have the market dominance they have today.

You kids! Haven't you ever heard of MS-DOS [wikipedia.org]? MS-DOS was the dominant operating system for PCs in the 1980s. Contrary to popular belief among people who are either too young to remember or were too computer illiterate in the 1980s to remember, Microsoft did not build its monopoly on Windows. The Microsoft juggernaut built its multi-billion dollar empire not on Windows, but on MS-DOS. Now you kids get off my lawn!