Microsoft: Today Yahoo, tomorrow the world!
Posted 31 weeks 2 days ago byLending credence to my theory that Bill Gates will own all of us in the not-too-distant future, Microsoft yesterday put in an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo.
I'm enough of a conservative to be as suspicious and skeptical of big business as I am of big government. What might that future look like? Maybe a little bit like the past:
We are born in a Microsoft house, fed from the Microsoft shop, taught in the Microsoft school, catechized in the Microsoft church, and when we die we shall be buried in the Microsoft cemetery and go to Microsoft Hell.
Thoughts
Re: Antitrust
Submitted on February 3rd, 2008 by BenThe old anti-trust charge against Microsoft was bogus, it seemed to me at the time. Anyone could uninstall Internet Explorer. Netscape couldn't compete. Period.
This time it's different. Microsoft is in a weaker position in the market. But its acquisition of Yahoo could have antitrust implications. Microsoft, by the way, helped derail Google's attempted merger with Doubleclick last year. So Google's antitrust claims are as much "what-goes-around-comes-around" as anything.
Antitrust?
Submitted on February 3rd, 2008 by FRTN500CEOGoogle is now claiming anti-trust issues. The fact is while Microsoft has a monopoly in relative software and general use of PC's, Google heavily dominates search technology and internet advertising realm of the world. Yahoo! doesn't hold a candle.
Microsoft has been working tirelessly to match Google's innovations with very little luck.
If Microsoft's search technology is integrated with Yahoo's establishment of service and information, well I think Google employees may have to start working eight hours a day.
I have no doubt this would strengthen the competition in the search and search marketing world.