Implications Of Yahoo-MSFT merger

[Darrin Chandler]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:32:51PM -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> General prognostications:
> - After some discussion and hand waving about monopolies and too much
> power in one company, the deal will be approved.
> - Yahoo employees will be applying to Google and any other place even
> faster than they are already.
> - Yahoo sign-in will be migrated to MS Passport or whatever they call it
> now days.  With an Active-X control.  Which is when I would HAVE to say
> goodbye to Flickr.
> - The Yahoo name will be kept but the guts methodically morphed to the
> "try to please everyone just like MSN doesn't" design goal.
> - Flickr and Yahoo Mail will be integrated into the new MS Office Live
> service to begin loosing relevance rapidly.
> - In three years MS will have molded it all into the MS plain yogurt
> such that the Yahoo name will be only an historical footnote like Hotmail.

Pretty much what I was thinking. I hadn't thought about the Passport
thing, but I suspect you're dead on.

In any case, neither MS nor Yahoo has been able to win out against
Google separately. I don't see any magic synergy thing happening that
will change that. Worse, Yahoo could take a chance and do wacky
interesting things. I'm pretty sure MS will squash that, given some
time.

I'll be holding onto my Google stock, thank you very much. ;-)

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