Comments on: Should Microsoft buy Yahoo? http://www.ojr.org/080201yahoo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=080201yahoo Focusing on the future of digital journalism Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: 189.146.75.8 http://www.ojr.org/080201yahoo/#comment-1051 189.146.75.8 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:03:59 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1433#comment-1051 NO…
In the difference is the beauty….
please…
let be every body different and no all part of a monopoly…..

Hopefully…microsoft stays microsof..and yahoo yahoo…

]]> By: Robert Niles http://www.ojr.org/080201yahoo/#comment-1050 Robert Niles Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:08:09 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1433#comment-1050 Former Knight-Ridder online exec Ken Doctor analyzed the deal from the perspective of Yahoo’s newspaper partners over at PaidContent.

]]> By: 122.162.91.115 http://www.ojr.org/080201yahoo/#comment-1049 122.162.91.115 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:55:56 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1433#comment-1049 I don’t think its a good move. Their cultures are wide apart. Integrating two big internet giants itself is a big problem. This merger seems to be hitting the online world in a big way.

You might want to cast your vote here
http://www.criticat.com/should-yahoo-get-acquired-microsoft

]]> By: 71.28.156.227 http://www.ojr.org/080201yahoo/#comment-1048 71.28.156.227 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:11:33 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1433#comment-1048 Microsoft knows what it’s doing or it wouldn’t have offered such a large premium offer. Yahoo will probably take it because there is no way they could get there on their own in the near future.

I think the customers will lose out because when it comes to technology and culture, Microsoft and Yahoo are far apart as can be.

When Microsoft bought Hotmail it was the same situation. Microsoft migrated an open source company to Windows and reliability and features went down before it started to creep slowly back up.

We will see a lot of good Yahoo people leave and customers flock from properties yahoo has when it’s official and the migration to a new system or new msn/yahoo serice begins.

Good news is we might see those talented Yahoo engineers make new online properties and all those customers moving around will cause other companies to improve their offerings to try and catch them as they leave.

I’m particularly said for the Yahoo property flickr.com. I would hate to see it go the way of Hotmail.

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