After watching Cavuto on the Fox Business network last evening, I was so enraged I could hardly sleep.
In case you have your head buried under a rock and haven’t heard, M$ has threatened a hostile takeover of Yahoo by going directly to the shareholders.
Okay, I’m not an illiterate who doesn’t understand our capitalist society and I understand economics. And yes, I understand that the SHAREHOLDERS want MONEY for their Yahoo stock. I get that.
What gets my blood pressure boiling to stroke level is the whole idea that anyone would think that Microsoft buying Yahoo is a good idea in the first place!
Everything M$ touches turns to crap. If M$ buys Yahoo, I will move my mail to Google, I’ll never again use Freecycle (a Yahoo Group), and I’ll never use any search but Google!
I was also considering moving to ATT DSL. NOT anymore! ATT is using Yahoo! It’s ATT/Yahoo. So what next? ATT/Microsoft-Yahoo? M$ has fracked up my computer so much they are not going to get the opportunity to screw with my connection too! NO THANK YOU!
Or maybe M$ wants to be able to install some more stealth updates through the connections? Again, NO THANK YOU!
I was also going to buy a Ford Hybrid Escape. Until I heard it comes with M$ Synch. I don’t think I want to have to reboot my car every time M$ Synch fails! That could be very hazardous in traffic.
Microsoft has its grubby, greedy claws in cars (Synch), MP3 players (Zune), gaming systems (XBox), search engines and advertising (MSN and useless MS Live Search), alleged security (Defender and Malicious Software Removal Tool), and they can’t even create a secure Operating System which was what they initially built their business on! And we are expected to believe that they will do Yahoo right? If you believe that, I have a bridge for you to buy!
Then, one of Cavuto’s guests made a comment that Yahoo has decided to make changes in the way they do advertising that’s supposed to improve their profits. She says, that given we’re in a recession that spending for online advertising is only going to decrease. EXCUSE ME? Do you have your head under a rocklady?
I don’t know what research or reports she’s been reading, but everything I’m reading says online advertising is up given the fact that the brilliant geniuses who do research for television advertising finally figured out that we consumers are putting our shows on DVR so we can fast forward past the commercials! We aren’t watching them anymore! So companies are pumping far more money into online advertising where we can’t fast forward! They have captive audiences!
Microsoft used to have a vision statement that read, “A PC on every desktop.” I think their new vision statement is, “World domination whether we are good at it or not.”
The only thing I can hope for now is that IF M$ is allowed to pursue the hostile takeover of Yahoo, and they are successful, that this will mark the beginning of the end of Microsoft Corporation.
I can see it all now…… Linux on every desktop, running Google aps or Open Office. And the History Channel running a documentary that mentions - briefly - the software giant that was once called Microsoft and how it disappeared from history like the fall of the great Roman Empire. We can only hope!
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