Microsoft made a $44.6 billion dollar offer for Yahoo. Why? That just makes no sense to me. Wouldn't it be better to put the money towards, I don't know, maybe developing a good product? I mean, instead of buying a company with, um, no good products? What a colossal waste of money. How would you even integrate two things that large?
- jim 2-01-2008 7:57 pm

The bottom line: A brilliant move on Microsoft's part and the deal should quickly go through.

For more details, please see our full coverage on Silicon Alley Insider.

Disclosure: I have long-term positions in both Yahoo and Microsoft.


- tom moody 2-02-2008 1:13 am


Blodget thinks it's a good move; I rest my case.
- jim 2-02-2008 2:40 am


John Gruber

I forgot this means MS will own delicious and flickr.
- tom moody 2-02-2008 2:52 am


Yeah, Gruber's got it. It's like Yahoo does everything in metric and Microsoft doesn't. How do you put that together? Short answer is you don't. This isn't going to work. Microsoft is going to pay 44 Billion for the Yahoo! name. They will lose all the good engineers and then throw away all the good infrastructure when they move everything to .NET. It's completely ridiculous.

This might beat out the AOL / Time Warner merger as worse business deal ever.
- jim 2-02-2008 2:59 am


Msft doesn't really get Silicon Valley. I agree this will be an epic fail if it goes through.
- mark 2-02-2008 9:04 am



- mark 2-09-2008 4:28 am


the market feels the same ...

microsoft bids on yahoo
- mark 2-09-2008 4:35 am





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