It might be worth it to pick up Yahoo at $2 per share, but at $33, this deal would seriously hurt MS by depleting its reserves and send it's stock down. MS fans, Xbox 360 fans etc. should be glad this deal won't go through at $33 or more per share. And really, all of America should be glad it won't at that price. Imagine the economic mess this country would be in if MS collapsed and thousands of its employees were laid off. MS should have been focusing on spending money on getting studios to support HD DVD and in turn it's Xbox/Vista Media Center platforms and dealing a knock-out blow to Sony -- something that would have directly benefited MS Xbox and Vista customers. Gates and Ballmer need to get over the fact they lost the Internet search engine battle years ago by not looking at what was needed by Internet users at the time. Now it's time to focus on improving Vista and getting Windows 7 out on time with new, compelling features "Killer aps" that will give people a real reason to buy rather than Ultimate this and that. How about streaming DVDs/HD DVDs make that BluRays with Java encryption DRM (sorry MS, but Java's what you'll have to make work now that you let HD DVD die) from changers/stripped to hard drives and on to Xbox media extenders huh MS? Don't count on Internet downloads being the way to go. Internet connections fast enough to allow on demand services like IPTV on the Xbox (which hasn't been seen in the real-world yet) are not afforable and won't be for years. I could go on...
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Shmoe @ May 4th 2008 2:05AM
It might be worth it to pick up Yahoo at $2 per share, but at $33, this deal would seriously hurt MS by depleting its reserves and send it's stock down. MS fans, Xbox 360 fans etc. should be glad this deal won't go through at $33 or more per share. And really, all of America should be glad it won't at that price. Imagine the economic mess this country would be in if MS collapsed and thousands of its employees were laid off. MS should have been focusing on spending money on getting studios to support HD DVD and in turn it's Xbox/Vista Media Center platforms and dealing a knock-out blow to Sony -- something that would have directly benefited MS Xbox and Vista customers. Gates and Ballmer need to get over the fact they lost the Internet search engine battle years ago by not looking at what was needed by Internet users at the time. Now it's time to focus on improving Vista and getting Windows 7 out on time with new, compelling features "Killer aps" that will give people a real reason to buy rather than Ultimate this and that. How about streaming DVDs/HD DVDs make that BluRays with Java encryption DRM (sorry MS, but Java's what you'll have to make work now that you let HD DVD die) from changers/stripped to hard drives and on to Xbox media extenders huh MS? Don't count on Internet downloads being the way to go. Internet connections fast enough to allow on demand services like IPTV on the Xbox (which hasn't been seen in the real-world yet) are not afforable and won't be for years. I could go on...