N. Venkatraman

Microsoft Should Fire Steve Ballmer, or Hire SuperNanny. Or Both.

I think Steve B. should just walk away. There are many other ways to invest the $41B to develop the capabilities to win in the online space. The postmerger integration is usually thorny; the fact that it is a hostile (or quasi-hostile) acquisition will only make postmerger integration worse. And MSFT stockholders will lose (and Yahoo stochholders will also partly lose since they will get 50% of the value in MSFT stock. Just walk away, Steve.