I don't know, microsoft are being risky buying out a company which is failing very badly JUST to spite google. This is especially bad since the reason Yahoo is failing... is google. I guess it shows how Microsoft's desperation can lead to them doing very silly things.
Yahoo is pretty bad anyways, it feels very out of date (heck like a year or so ago the mainpage was still like a block paragraph of links to their services), so I don't care that much.
Though Microsoft Geocities is something I find amusing.

oh no mommy and daddy help me corporations are doing corporate things to each other thats not right im scared

What's Yahoo?

Why is every move Microsoft does construed as some sort of world conquering bid for power?  Google is just as powerful a corporation as Microsoft, but if it were google buying out Yahoo, no one would bat an eye.

I got to the words "Steve Ballmer" and stopped reading because I just picture him in Pirates of Silicon Valley being annoying and disgusting.

Why is every move Microsoft does construed as some sort of world conquering bid for power?  Google is just as powerful a corporation as Microsoft, but if it were google buying out Yahoo, no one would bat an eye.

because google don't have a $ in their name like Micro$oft!
People are very retarded over the whole issue. Microsft is the DEMON. Like they do ONE mistake or thier program has ONE fault and people are saying they are satan and they never do anything good.
This is of course based on the fact that they have money. And people are stupid and assume that people having money = people murdering and eating babies.

Puh-leeze.  Spare me the "you're just jealous of their success" Libertarian nonsense.  Can you even name one program of theirs that has only "ONE fault"?  Heck, I'll make it easier on you.  Can you name one program of theirs that has only one MAJOR fault?

I couldn't care less who does and doesn't have money.  What I don't like is them 1) breaking the law, 2) selling buggy crap that doesn't work, and 3) destroying good software by either buying it out and breaking it or driving its developers out of business.  Microsoft has been doing all three of these things for decades, and now they're after my email.  Everyone here understands what a fundamental part of one's online identity an email address is.  I have several years of my life invested in Yahoo!Mail.  To have a company with a long and consistent track record of buying out and breaking good software eyeing my email provider is a nightmare come true!

We all know Microsoft is the only company who can make buggy software.

To have a company with a long and consistent track record of buying out and breaking good software eyeing my email provider is a nightmare come true!

Melodramatic much?

Why don't they just buy google?

We all know Microsoft is the only company who can make buggy software.

more than that it's just ridiculous to say their software DOESN'T WORK. ya, it's buggy for some people, ya, it may also stop working for some people, but it's not just buggy software that doesn't work. it works for the vast majority of people, but as we all kno those who are unhappy are much louder than those who aren't.

so yeah, dont be such a baby about this. nothing is going to change.

Why don't they just buy google?

They can't.

Monopoly.

(Hotmail), it quickly degenerated into a horrific, buggy mess.  (Anyone remember the 30-copies-of-messages glitch that they kept fixing and re-fixing again and again every couple months?)  Even today, more than a decade later, Hotmail's nowhere near as good as Yahoo!Mail or Gmail.  I don't want to go through this all again.  I don't think anyone who's been through it does...

imo hotmails not bad. Ive been using it since 1996 with the same email account and i havent had a problem. The only thing ofcourse I get is about 5-6 junk emails a day which go into the corresponding inbox


but yeah i fully agree with jesters post, this wont really change things I guess, even if they do I cant see them being bad for us. No matter who wins this "war", the consumers won't be sad about anything since none of their personal resources are tarnished.

alt. to windows: see "i work like a dream" linux




and just in case some of you people really nodded with this post and said, sparkle-eyes wide, that "listen to the man. linux... it's prefect." then let me inform you that was sarcasm.
secondly, if you really did so.... jesus

Puh-leeze.  Spare me the "you're just jealous of their success" Libertarian nonsense.  Can you even name one program of theirs that has only "ONE fault"?  Heck, I'll make it easier on you.  Can you name one program of theirs that has only one MAJOR fault?

I couldn't care less who does and doesn't have money.  What I don't like is them 1) breaking the law, 2) selling buggy crap that doesn't work, and 3) destroying good software by either buying it out and breaking it or driving its developers out of business.  Microsoft has been doing all three of these things for decades, and now they're after my email.  Everyone here understands what a fundamental part of one's online identity an email address is.  I have several years of my life invested in Yahoo!Mail.  To have a company with a long and consistent track record of buying out and breaking good software eyeing my email provider is a nightmare come true!

Personally, I think Microsoft are targeting you. Specifically. They're walking around and deliberately going after email services that you use, and then the send in their army of techers and break them. Not that they need much help with Yahoo as it's annoying and akward to use compared to how easy Hotmail is. Maybe they're targeting you and going after programs that you like, and try to make them better just for you, but you're very ungratefull and ignore the good things inorder to just have something to moan about. But then maybe that is also intentional, they know you like to moan and so are providing the means for it.
Also Microsoft have aids, the latest vista update has been cancelled because they found out there was a binary stream of Aids in it, which could leap from monitor to human eyes, and infect us with aids.

Like I say I don't care either way. I have a yahoo, and I only use it for reging hentai forums, since it's too akward to use for regular stuff. I use Hotmail for my regular stuff since it's quick, simple and just a click on my msn. I doubt Microsoft would change yahoo that much since it's a recognisable brand with it's own fanbase, and they have Hotmail so they could very easily keep yahoo email seperate and provide the illusion of being seperate companies (much like youtube is to google)

Also I find it hard to name programs with ONE MAJOR FAULT, like at a struggle I could say Vista because of compatability problems with older programs, but then that is also equally to blame with the makers of them programs... and the alternative is stuff like Mac which only has three games released on it. But I wouldn't call it a major problem as it's very easy to find other programs that work, and anything that can be sorted after 10 seconds on google is hardely major. but yeah other than that my experience with Microsoft has been rather pleasant. The programs do what I need them to, and fullfill their jobs well, if there are better programs around then I use them (I don't believe in brand loyalty), but I'm not going to throw temper tantrums.

holy shit

corporations doing business

terrifying

the horror...

I don't care because when the fall comes, it will all amount to nothing.

EDIT: I use gmail because it isn't shitty like yahoo. I don't think I've even been to yahoo.com in over five years