Yahoo!: We don’t need Microsoft so stop already
Microsoft and Yahoo! seem inextricably linked together these days. Because the two of them alone cannot hope to compete with Google in the search market, there are constant rumors of buyouts, deals, and collaborations. But Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz really isn’t interested.
A good portion of last year was spent wondering whether Microsoft and Yahoo were going to merge. Microsoft went so far as making a multi-billion dollar bid for Yahoo!, which was eventually rejected on the grounds that it didn’t value the company at a high enough price.
That wasn’t, however, the end of the story. Microsoft may have missed out on a complete takeover of Yahoo! and its valuable share of the overall Internet search market, but Steve Ballmer and co. were (are) still eager for some kind of meeting of minds. While Microsoft surely knows teaming up with Yahoo! would not be a silver bullet to kill Google off with, it also knows it will certainly help matters.
However, new Chief Executive Office at Yahoo!, Carol Bartz, really doesn’t seem interested in Microsoft, what its intentions are, or what it wants with her company. According to AFP, Bartz lashed out at a recent conference about all the Microsoft talk which refuses to go away.
Yahoo! doesn’t have to do anything with Microsoft about anything. Yahoo! actually has a bright, bright future – probably a cleaner and simpler future without thinking there’s any Microsoft connection.
We’d be better off if we’d never heard the word Microsoft. Forget about the Microsoft stuff, it’s honestly not that relevant.
OK, we get the picture. You don’t want to talk about Microsoft and you really aren’t interested in doing any deals with Microsoft in the near future. You maybe didn’t need to lay it on quite that thick.
I can certainly see where Bartz is coming from because she’s taken over the running of a company in the immediate aftermath of a takeover bid and instead of being able to put it behind her and get on with her job she’s still having to dodge questions about Microsoft’s plans for her company.
Microsoft probably needs Yahoo! more than Yahoo! needs Microsoft. Bing may up Microsoft’s search market share a little but it’ll likely never get anywhere near Google and its dominance of the market. Yahoo! seems pretty happy sitting in second place and lapping up the dregs from Google.
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