What M$ should have done was imbed search engine hooks into all it’s various OSes, signed an agreement with Yahoo! to direct these hooks to Yahoo!, made these hooks hell to change, and then finally bought a 49% stake in Yahoo.

Advertisers don’t have respect for you, they just want your eyes by any means possible so they can work their voodoo on you. e.g. Apple Computers are radically young and hip.

This proves to me M$ never had a monopoly by design but rather one handed to them on a silver platter by the sheer ineptness of their competition.

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What’s the problem here?

Stocks are supposed to go up. Why should I care about what happens to every employee? I am not investing in companies for the people. I am investing in companies to generate a large profit.

Shareholders are not there to run the business and take care of the details. They invest because they believe that the company can grow and that growth will help shareholders to get more cash. Any reason for investing other than making as much money as possible is lunacy.

Stop pretending as if you care about the people. They certainly do not care about you. If you are not out here for self, you are not living a very good life.

All this whining from Jerry about how Microsoft walking away is just drama on his part to lessen the blow.

Yahoo share holders, you can run now and get some returns or wait for the pot of gold. Only time will tell.

Toying with antitrust regulations and flirting with problematic alternatives may have burned YHOO’S bridges.

The bridges leading back to the fertile fields of opportunity, which YHOO abandoned, may have suffered irreparable damage.

MSFT retains its position as a leader and innovator in the “RAINFOREST” of technology.

The circumstances that you are describing, Bing, sound like the kind of folly that’s rife in the airline industry. This could even be the dealings of a Pickens or an Icahn.

I’m no expert on these matters, but I was rooting for Microsoft on this one. I can understand the fear and frustration associated with an unwelcome advance by such a powerful suitor. In the the end, though, I think taken the money and taken a nice long vacation.

Okay, now come the easy bets. Yahoo’s price falls. We already know that. In a few weeks or months, MS bids again, but at a lower price. This time, Yahoo accepts because next time the shareholders won’t be silly enough to turn down such a huge premium.

Could Google make a run at the company? Maybe. I doubt that would pass regulatory muster, though. Even if it does, it won’t in Europe.

Or perhaps China, with its trillions of dollars in reserves, makes a pass. But that would be unprecedented and, quite frankly, I don’t see Yahoo becoming a big enough bargain for their brand of low-ball.

Mt advice: dump yahoo while you still can, it’s long term is nowwhere, cause now it’s a 3 horse race.