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PCWorld

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Feb 1, 2008 3:51 PM

If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

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phelps

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Dec 24, 2007

1. Feb 1, 2008 4:57 PM

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If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

When will people get it through their heads there is nothing good about microsoft buying anything. A giant corporation harboring the wealthiest people in the world will not do things out of the goodness of its heart, it has none.

Yert

264 posts since
Jun 30, 2007

2. Feb 1, 2008 5:17 PM

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If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

Microsoft buying Yahoo! is good. Both companies will be able to compete, making Google have to fight. Corperate fights always benifit the consumer. ALWAYS!

rkinne01

303 posts since
Nov 29, 2006

3. Feb 1, 2008 7:33 PM

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Arghh. I am so tired of all this anti-Microsoft crap! Microsoft is a business and like any business they won't stay afloat if people if people don't but thier products. Bottom line if you don't like Microsoft or anyother company then don't but their products, PERIOD!

stargazershah

1 posts since
Feb 1, 2008

4. Feb 1, 2008 11:59 PM

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If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

Probably after this Yahoo has to migrate all their applications & codes to comply with Microsoft platform. What a BS! I think Google should work with Apple. So what the heck if I'm anti-Microsoft?!

ushere

15 posts since
Dec 5, 2007

5. Feb 2, 2008 12:45 AM

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If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

YaSoft?

well it'd change m$'s image as a bully....

MleB

18 posts since
Sep 26, 2007

6. Feb 2, 2008 4:48 AM

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If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

Well, that will almost certainly put an end to the iPhone coming to Canada.

Rogers(the only GSM provider in Canada)has a significant tie-in with Yahoo in regards to their internet strategy (both for wireless and for their unrelated home/business ISP)- and even if you disregard the 2 enormous egos at work (Jobs and Rogers) that has hitherto prevented the iPhone from being released here, the likelihood that Apple will be thrilled with having a direct tie-in to a Microsoft-provided internet service seems, uh...remote.

snorg

2,529 posts since
Nov 28, 2007

7. Feb 2, 2008 5:09 AM

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MS will probably fill Yahoo full of Active X making it useless for us FireFox users.

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local157

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Feb 2, 2008

8. Feb 2, 2008 5:15 AM

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If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

STATE OF NEW YORK, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
MICROSOFT CORPORATION,
Defendant.
The Court having entered judgment in accordance with the Findings of Fact and the Conclusions of Law on April 3, 2000, that Microsoft has violated §§ 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2, as well as the following state law provisions: Cal Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 16720, 16726, 16727, 17200; Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 35-26, 35-27, 35-29; D.C. Code §§ 28-4502, 28-4503; Fla. Stat. chs. 501.204(1), 542.18, 542.19; 740 Ill. Comp. Stat. ch. 10/3; Iowa Code §§ 553.4, 553.5; Kan. Stat. §§ 50-101 et seq.; Ky. Rev. Stat. §§ 367.170, 367.175; La. Rev. Stat. §§ 51:122, 51:123, 51:1405; Md. Com. Law II Code Ann. § 11-204; Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93A, § 2; Mich. Comp. Laws §§ 445.772, 445.773; Minn. Stat. § 325D.52; N.M. Stat. §§ 57-1-1, 57-1-2; N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 340; N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 75-1.1, 75-2.1; Ohio Rev. Code §§ 1331.01, 1331.02; Utah Code § 76-10-914; W.Va. Code §§ etc.

boogerman41747

5 posts since
Nov 8, 2007

9. Feb 3, 2008 5:04 AM

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If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

I hope this won't happen,as I would have to give up my Yahoo email address of 10 years.I shudder to think what Micro$oft would change.I quit using Hotmail long ago,thanks to Redmond's constant restrictions .
As a recovering Windows addict(now a LINUX user),I've seen Micro$oft's pathetic attempts to control and rule all.
Hey Redmond! I OWN my Computer.I decide what I can do with it,not you.

Cosmo

1,984 posts since
Jul 27, 2006

10. Feb 3, 2008 6:07 AM

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Re: If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

That wouldn't be such a bad thing you know

Yahoo has this horrible tendency to put spam at the bottom of your emails (payed subscription or not). You're much better off switching over to a better service such as Gmail. You have ads in the interface, but not in the email itself. Also, my yahoo accounts can't touch my Gmail accounts when it comes to spam filters and storage (currently 3.5 GiB of storage).

owing

1 posts since
Feb 3, 2008

11. Feb 3, 2008 5:02 PM

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If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

Not all mergers of giants are bad. Look at Exxon-Mobile. They are making money hand over fist.

Naderidk

1 posts since
Feb 3, 2008

12. Feb 3, 2008 11:30 PM

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If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

I do hope Yahoo shareholders come to their senses, and that the USA gov. play fare, so we see a new internet beast come to life.

rickoh

3 posts since
Feb 4, 2008

13. Feb 4, 2008 12:39 PM

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If Microsoft Buys Yahoo: What We'd Love--and Hate

Im just sitting back with a rum in my hand waiting for Google to build their own OS...and their own browser...
hmmmm.....Googlscape...
Internet Googsplorer.....hmmmmmmmm
I'd buy it!!