Should Yahoo accept Microsoft’s offer of $44.6 billion?
It was about time we heard something definite. Microsoft is making the decisive move to formally offer $44.6 billion for Yahoo. After all the endless rumours it is now officially confirmed that the two giants have been in talks for a pretty long time. So what were they waiting for? From what they say, for Google to get larger and more threatening…
Yahoo! keeps fighting on and has in its collection some great aps. Flickr is a super example with wide popularity and Yahoo mail is among the best out there. Unfortunately, it has not been easy to pull all the fragments together to create the all critical buzz a web company needs.
On its part, Microsoft has never managed to become a truly web company. I do not think it is just the Windows and Office legacy but the fact that doing operating systems, applications, game consoles and God knows what else at the same time cannot have the same success in all market sectors.
To make two giants work together in peace is a daunting task and I would think the largest obstacle in such an acquisition. Ask HP and how smoothly its Compaq acquisition went… But on the other side it is an opportunity for Yahoo to get the web respect it deserves. I have the feeling that if Microsoft’s offer does not become accepted, Yahoo will slowly and steadily slide lower and lower to become web history. In the last year or so I have hardly seen any browsers without Google being the default opening page address. Coincidence? I think not. Maybe Microsoft is correct…
Link: Engadget
