Clash of the Titans…. Mircohoo! one more time
Another article reviewing the MS-Yahoo deal on Arstechnica made me think gain. Is it possible that this is simply is strategy to eliminate competition and the MS is ready to skim Yahoo of its assets and customers?
If so, I am sorry to see that Microsoft, once great and evil mastermind needs to sugarcoat it like this. If you have the dough to make a 45 billion dollar hostile takeover, why don’t you actually flash your balls while doing that?
Why didn’t Ballmer (and I know he would love to) stand in front of the press and say something like: “We are big, we are bad, we will crush our enemies! Google just wait, we are getting ready for you as well!” We could have like a big bad clash of the Titans kind of thing. Now that’s good entertainment. Google-don’t-be-evil vs Microsaurus.
I bet you MS stock will rise instead while Yahoo! would plummet even more. That would make the whole deal cheaper, but alas I suppose not simpler. I don’t think that the deal would be approved then.
So maybe it is a big scam. Maybe MS is not weak and struggling for the last resort, but I bet ya it must be eating Ballmer’s head that he can’t look down on Jerry Yang and say: “Amigo, the only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. Balls. You got that?”
(Quote from Scarface for those of you who don’t love gangster movies as much as I do 
