[Discuss] Microsoft walks away from Yahoo

[Alan W. Irwin]

http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080503.wmicrosoft0503/BNStory/Business/home

My own view is this would have been a horrible acquisition for MS; because
of the cultural differences between the companies MS would have had to
destroy most of the value of Yahoo in order to digest it.  So it would have
been a $48 billion expense to MS with not much to show for it except
additional headaches/losses for the company.

Too bad cooler heads prevailed at MS.  I was really hoping Ballmer's hubris
would force a Yahoo takeover that would imperil MS as a result.

Better luck, next time... :-)

Alan
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