http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/yahoo_is_for_sale_microsoft.html en-gb 30 Wed 30 Dec 2009 11:50:10 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/yahoo_is_for_sale_microsoft.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/yahoo_is_for_sale_microsoft.html?page=17#comment7 Maggie:I think they should be purchased on "our terms; not there's"..... Tue 09 Dec 2008 06:08:16 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/yahoo_is_for_sale_microsoft.html?page=15#comment6 Apple only have to 'do a Microsoft' and de-regulate the hardware and allow anyone to make and sell Apple compatible computer bits to see their share price shoot up. The sales of Apple OS be it Tiger or whatever would give the market an alternaltive to Windows. Its only a matter of time... Thu 06 Nov 2008 17:40:43 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/yahoo_is_for_sale_microsoft.html?page=12#comment5 Mr Yang looks like Moss from the Graham Lineham sitcom The IT Crowd, as played by Richard Ayoade: perhaps that might cheer him a little. Thu 06 Nov 2008 17:35:09 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/yahoo_is_for_sale_microsoft.html?page=10#comment4 Apple will continue to be a niche player in the OS market whilst it's goods are overpriced, but then that provides the very niche status that Apple fills. If Apple Macs became mainstream it would detract from their brand! As for Yahoo they made big mistake not accepting the earlier MS offer. The best bet for Yang is to get MS back to the table and head up their web services division as part of the deal. Thu 06 Nov 2008 16:34:52 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/yahoo_is_for_sale_microsoft.html?page=7#comment3 It doesn't matter that Microsoft is dominant in the PC market, that market is saturated and Microsoft can't deliver growth relying on it.Apple are eating into Microsoft's desktop market as are Linux distributions.The market Microsoft wants to do well in is online advertising. Thu 06 Nov 2008 15:40:45 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/yahoo_is_for_sale_microsoft.html?page=5#comment2 Of course this smacks of desperation. However it's also clear that Yang isn't all that interested in making a huge amount of money from the selling of Yahoo (not that he particularly is short of a few bob).The shareprice has tumbled and he'll never get anything around $30/share anymore but I don't think he cares. Frankly he would have to be mindless if he didn't realise that $30+/share from MS wasn't a good deal. I just think he feels too attached to the company he started and once ruled the Internet and maybe has let it become a bit too personal. Maybe some of our football club owners should take a leaf out of this guy's book.While MS might be the dominant OS vendor we all know who dominates the Internet search market probably to a much greater extent than MS does with the OS market. Figures alone shouldn't be used to judge the dominance in either market. Whereas MS is losing share to MacOS and (slowly) to Linux, in the search market Google is unchallenged for sometime. The only way to change this is if two big players get together and rather than gang up on Google but actually challenge them to up their game.For those that hate MS, they fund a lot more research here in the UK than Google ever did. In this case it really might just be Google who should be viewed with the "overlord" status. Thu 06 Nov 2008 15:23:33 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/yahoo_is_for_sale_microsoft.html?page=2#comment1 with microsoft's dominance over the pc market does it matter if they buy yahoo or leave it to struggle along by itself one will never know.is there ever going to be a viable competitor to windows we again will never know.with the future changing every 6 months who knows what will happen next.as long as thing keep working and systems improove every one will be happy. Thu 06 Nov 2008 14:13:53 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/yahoo_is_for_sale_microsoft.html?page=0#comment0 From MS:"Hey, Yahoo, we might. But it'll be on our terms, not yours".A while back I mentioned that when MS withdrew its initial offer that this saga wasn't over, something that was pretty obvious to most people with a bit of business nous. Thu 06 Nov 2008 13:00:08 GMT+1