MacManMaz

Hey Microsoft, I've Got A Better Idea

That's all we need... internet video through a cr*ppy Windows media Player and no other choice. DRM on everything. And years and years before an upgrade that you have to pay through the nose for.

Oh yeah, I can't wait.

There are reasons that Yahoo, Google, and Apple are doing so well, and those reasons come from Microsoft. I don't see them going away.

Microsoft + Yahoo = No Longer a Recipe for Success

Great, just what we all need. The blue screen of death while searching the internet and maps. Oh boy, O boy, I can't wait!

It's pretty obvious that Microsoft is desperate to the point of giving up on it's own developers. They would rather use up all their cash and then borrow even more than rely on their own developers. Apparently, the top dogs in Redmond have finally come to grips with the fact that they just can not create productive, and attractive applications that can compete "off the desktop". This does not bode well for the future in an era when mobile devices will be taking more and more of the add revenue. If this deal were to fail, who else would Microsoft turn to?

Yahoo would be smart to stay far away from this "deal". Let the boys in Redmond have the desktop. There's more potential in the mobile web and web based applications. Microsoft needs Yahoo far more than Yahoo needs Microsoft right now.