Microsoft to takeover Yahoo!

[boffo]

Doesn't make any difference to me. The internet has so many options available making it hard to achieve world domination via the internet. I remember when they bought Hotmail and the horrors that were predicted from that. Somehow the internet found a way to survive.

[NapalmRiot]

Originally Posted by E6600

There are dozens of better alternatives (Google Talk and Apple iChat) too bad a lot of people (my friends) are hooked into this crap of a service. Thankfully Pidgin Internet Messenger can manage communicating with MSN as well as a lot more, unfortunately you'll still need an MSN/Hotmail ID.

Originally Posted by chedabob

GTalk sucks. It's just Jabber with Google support. Apple iChat is pretty much AIM with a fancy interface. Pidgin sucks nuts. So does Trillian and AMSN.

Mmm, took the words from my mouth cheda.


Oh, and is old news old? It's labeled for May of '06.

[Juno]

Originally Posted by NapalmRiot

Oh, and is old news old? It's labeled for May of '06.

BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo

[E6600]

Originally Posted by NapalmRiot

Oh, and is old news old? It's labeled for May of '06.

MS has been going on about it for quite a while. I heard about it on the news, too lazy to search for proper sources so I just picked up some random sources, but here is a more recent one:

Microsoft-Yahoo: Could Yahoo Finally Say Yes? - Tech
By Steve Ragan Feb 3, 2008, 8:20 GMT

[Sim88]

Originally Posted by boffo

Doesn't make any difference to me. The internet has so many options available making it hard to achieve world domination via the internet. I remember when they bought Hotmail and the horrors that were predicted from that. Somehow the internet found a way to survive.

what he said.

Originally Posted by PirateThom

I don't care, Yahoo is crap anyway, maybe Microsoft can make it better. They can't make it much worse.

Does not compute

[Descendency]

Originally Posted by PhoenixKfz

Does not compute

It's yahoo. It can't get worse.

I'd say it doesn't matter. Yahoo is a Web 0.5 technology. The only thing that sucks more than Yahoo is user controlled geosites pages.

[Gnu]

Originally Posted by Descendency

Web 0.5 technology.

I have to ask, what does "web 0.5" suppose to mean?

[Chibi Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Sim88

what he said.

chibi also shares this POV

[InsightGoalie]

Originally Posted by E6600

I didn't mean it in that way.
I just wanted you to look at the situation without thinking "I love Microsoft so I don't mind them taking over the world".
Having a one company monopoly is dangerous and harmful, whether it is Microsoft or any other company.
Competition is what pushes companies to innovate, and thus all of us can benefit.

Sorry, but Microsoft is not a monopoly. Sure you can claim it is in the PC world because they were smart enough to hit the market hard and get their OS preloaded on just about any PC you buy. But, look anywhere else and I can't see a monopoly. Zune has lots of competition, IE has competition, Xbox has competition, Yahoo even if it gets taken over has TONS of competition. Maybe I fail to see the monopoly? Sure Microsoft is a huge company. So what? Pepsi is huge to, UPS is huge, etc... Microsoft isn't a monopoly in any sense of the word how I see it. You're overreacting, sure big companies aren't the best thing for a free market but, it's not a monopoly.