Is Microsoft just Screwing with Yahoo's Mind? 209
The Narrative Fallacy writes "This week Cringely offers up a speculative piece asserting that Microsoft might not really care if its bid to buy Yahoo succeeds or not — Bill Gates just wants to disrupt Yahoo and poach the company's employees. 'Microsoft's offer for Yahoo has thrown that company and several others into a tizzy. Yahoo can't be getting much work done, that's for sure ... Redmond's real goal may be simply to poach people from Yahoo, and this deal could help them do just that.' Cringley says there is plenty of precedent for Microsoft's behavior — Microsoft's bids for Borland and for Intuit back in the 1990s sent both companies into a tailspin. 'A failed Microsoft bid, even one involving a termination fee, could lead to horrific results for the company. Remember that Yahoo is staggering here while Intuit was at the top of its market and its game.'"
Re:Who (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who (Score:5, Funny)
You Know You're In Trouble When... (Score:1, Funny)
Micro$oft Exploder - Tenacious Gates (Score:2, Funny)
Ahhhhh, ahhhhhh, ahhhhhhh, ahhhhhh, ahh ahhh ahhh ahhh
ahh ahh ahh ahhhh AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH YEAH!!
I do not need, (he does not need)
The Yahoo Bid (the yahoo bid)
Our Company is freakin, (freakin)
POWERFUL!
Aaaaaah yeah!
Arghhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
[Yahoo explodes]
Sorry
I did not mean, (he did not mean)
To screw your mind (to screw your mind)
But that stuff happens to us,
All the time!
Now take a look (take a look)
In to heaven? (In to heaven)
It's coming soon, WINDOWS SEVEEEEEENNNNNNNN!
AAAH! ArghhhAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Lyrics copyright to bobmarleypeople. w00t!
Re:Fixes (Score:5, Funny)
You mean Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt aren't Microsofts' 3 main products?
With SCO possibly going private, welcome to FUD 3.11.
Cringley's an idiot (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cringley's an idiot (Score:5, Funny)
But where's the adventure in that?
Re:Who (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cringley's an idiot (Score:5, Funny)
But where's the adventure in that?
No homoerotic overtones?
Messing with their minds (Score:1, Funny)
On the other hand, the ARE similar. (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, but they are a bit similar: Microsoft has proven, over many years, that it does not know how to run a search engine. Yahoo has proven, over many years, that...