Microsoft Sets Three Week Deadline for Yahoo! In Public Letter

An anonymous reader writes "In a letter sent today, Microsoft writes to Yahoo's board of directors to tell them that they would like to 'negotiate a definitive agreement on a combination of our companies.' Their message is a combination of friend and foe: 'If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders.'"

Galactica?

[tjstork]

Microsoft trying to take over Yahoo is old news. Microsoft threatening someone is old news. Techies should be rejoicing over the return of Galactica, and yet, what do we get here? Sadly, silence. Some geeks these days!

To paraphrase Captain Kirk: "I mock your superior intellect."

And Spock. "He is very intelligent, but his thinking is two dimensional."

Shit or get off the pot.

[dpaluszek]

Come on, Yahoo. I think Microsoft is being reasonable here, plus offering quite a bit. Even though I'm not a huge Microsoft fan, there is a thing called common courtesy.

Re:Well, it was nice knowing you Yahoo...

[mkiwi]

Personally I think it would be funny if Google and Yahoo got some sort of deal together like TFA suggests might happen. If you can imagine how mad Balmer would get after a top programmer leaves, just imagine what would happen if Yahoo tied itself to Google. He'd be freakin foaming at the mouth and no chair in the Seattle area would be safe from him.

M$oft getting better every day!

[no-body]

and making a lot more friends on the way.

Seems to become a staff/owner aging issue or they are getting desparate.

Translation:

[rastoboy29]

"We're determined to destroy both our companies, so hurry up and help us!"

Does this mean ...

[garett_spencley]

... that we'll be dressing up the Yahoo! logo as a borg ?

That'd actually be pretty sweet.

You know, despite being a Yahoo! mail user since the 90's who hates Microsoft as much as the next slashdotter, I actually hope they do merge now just so I can see that.

Altalavista baby !

[Laxator2]

Sorry, I had to say it. This can only help Google obtain total domination of internet advertising, as M$ will screw Yahoo! just as they did with MapBlast. And (Alta ?)Vista.

Re:Well, it was nice knowing you Yahoo...

[Adambomb]

damn, i've been mistaking the use of chairs my whole life.

Re:Shit or get off the pot.

[Marcos Eliziario]

No problem, he must be already used to type google.com when he wants to do a search. After all, who would search in yahoo?