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By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:40:45 +0000

Hehehehehe I love it! If this happens we could have war on our hands! I could see Google and Apple getting a little cozier after this!

I believe the war has already started! Now multiple companies are interested in Yahoo and Google wants to come in and "save them" from Microsoft in particular by offering some type of alliance. This should get interesting!

lp007 wrote:

I would think that a merger of this kind would certainly be in violation of anti-trust laws… well, it would be if the Justice dept actually prosecuted anti-trust cases anymore.

The Justice department has already said they are interested in reviewing this, so I'm sure they've got anti-trust already on their mind.

By: Jidery

Jidery — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:24:00 +0000

Arnt they compeating with yahoo with live.com?

By: lp007

lp007 — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:51:26 +0000

I would think that a merger of this kind would certainly be in violation of anti-trust laws… well, it would be if the Justice dept actually prosecuted anti-trust cases anymore.

I think this is a bad move also… and beyond the scope of anti-trust issues, I’d like to see it go through and watch MS fck it up!

They can’t beat their competition so they’ll just buy them and go through the motions of screwing up the whole thing. Fortunately, Google is out of their price range

Really, what has M$ done… right… lately?? It seems that every new business they decide to buy/create either mopes along doing little or nothing or flat out fails.

I’m having visions of Zunes and “Play For Sure” and Vista’s over-priced, bloated smorgasborg of flavors. Then there’s LIVE and URGE and MSN Store. Even they can’t get their own DRM to work well on their own sites (xbox live) with their own equipment (xbox)!

“WGA call home”, anybody??

By: Google

Google — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:03:34 +0000

Hehehehehe I love it! If this happens we could have war on our hands! I could see Google and Apple getting a little cozier after this!

By: Michael Dobrofsky

Michael Dobrofsky — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:52:52 +0000

epiac1216 wrote:

@Ashley: In an attempt to stop Google’s spectacular growth, Microsoft will shoot its own foot. Adding Yahoo to Microsoft means the creation of a monster with too many different personalities. Just the pain to consolidate both organizational cultures will create bloody “we Versus you” battles, while Google quietly continues to develop its “cloud computing” empire. If this deal goes through, it will end up like the Times-Warner/AOL deal—a total fiasco! Regards, Omar.-

Yes, I agree there. I think if it happens, it'll be a big mistake for MS. I wouldn't want to take on all that work of combining services into one. It's too daunting to think about the transition of service to service. And what a ridiculous amount of money.

By: epiac1216

epiac1216 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:13:09 +0000

@Ashley:

In an attempt to stop Google’s spectacular growth, Microsoft will shoot its own foot. Adding Yahoo to Microsoft means the creation of a monster with too many different personalities. Just the pain to consolidate both organizational cultures will create bloody “we Versus you” battles, while Google quietly continues to develop its “cloud computing” empire.

If this deal goes through, it will end up like the Times-Warner/AOL deal—a total fiasco!

Regards,

Omar.-