If MS buys Yahoo, our discussion group will leave yahoogroups and go somewhere else. That descission came in this afternoon.

So if I got to www.hotmail.com I get sent to live.logon.com. Where I see....

"welcome of Windows Live. Please enter you Windows Live ID"

I am also told that passport, MSN and hotmail account can use this ID. So I get into Hotmail I guess, and it works. If I have IE I can choose the bling bling site, at half the speed. No IE, no bling bling.

So lets go to my Thunderbird and setup IMAP to my hotmail/live/msn/passport email....what it wont work unless I pay for Hotmail Plus or MSN premium?????

Or I can get Outlook 2003/2007 and get a connector, but if pops errors about not syncing my caledar....unless I have msn premium???? How come this free connector wont work with Outlook Express or Vista Mail???

So now we add yahoo mail and all of its pay for POP/IMAP versions.....What a freaking mess.

www.gmail.com = FREE. Oh and when you go to that site it says "Welcome to Gmail" what a concept.

igoogle > my.yahoo
gmail > yahoo mail, msn, hotmail, windowslive mail
picasa > flickr
google > yahoo or windowslive search

I don't see where MS is getting the best-of-breed in any arena.

Is it not frightening to anybody that M$ has the MONEY to buy Yahoo @ 44.6 Billion?! Most governments can't throw cash like that around (unless its for our beloved weapons). M$ made a lot more than oil companies last quarter folks. Theres nothing to stop Bill and Steve from raising an army of cloned storm troopers and taking over the world. They already control most computers! WHEN THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO WAKE UP AND PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING?! RUN DAMMIT RUN!

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The fate of yahoo will be the same as hotmail. Soon Google will be the greatest website ever.

Flickr is so much better than anything else.

M$, you can not buy everything.

Microhoo? Yakrosoft? :)

44.6 gigawatts!!!

Well here in Japan Yahoo is the default search page for just about every person,business I've seen.
People are like" umm what's a Google"? when I quickly surf to Google before starting a search for anything on their computer.
Personally I think Google rules but here its barely been heard of.
Yahoo BB also is a huge ISP here(with kickass rates and speeds)...damn near everyone uses it for highspeed ADSL.
Dunno how much revenue would stream from them(if any)after a buyout but if it did it would be a very fat cash cow to own.

There's a lot more going on here than just competing for search. Google may have a huge lead in search advertising now, but the history of tech is littered with huge internet companies that later tanked. So nothing is certain.

A combined Microsoft/Yahoo actually dominates Google in other types of internet advertising however.

As far as synergy, I think Microsoft will eventually be able to concentrate on their moneymakers.....Windows, Office, etc., and will provide much better management to the combined company because right now Yahoo management is a mess. And I think it would be wise for Microsoft to turn over all things Internet related to Yahoo. And the two work together on generating advertising revenue.

I can see Yahoo continuing to do what it does now only with MSN.com and Live.com and maybe Xbox.com added to the mix with Yahoo.com. Yahoo Messenger will be compatible with Live Messenger. Yahoo Mail will be compatible with Windows Live Mail. Until they are melded together.

They want Yahoo's E-mail accounts, etc. With Goggle it's search and leave.

when they don't even give free pop access, who needs them besides the millions of advertisers? I say let the punishment fit the crime. They deserve each other.

The last time Yahoo had any significance, people were surfing the 'Net on Windows 98 boxes with 28k modems.

It's obvious they're nothing but a ship with a broken rudder drifting aimlessly in the ocean.
A good example is when they hired some Hollywood schmoe to change the direction of the business but failed miserably.

I would imagine the only hits to that crap site are from the few retard customers that AOL has left.

Well, this doesn't seem to be a good idea to me.. Google has far too much name-recognition for Microsoft/Yahoo! to take on anyway. It's rather the iPod of search - in the same way people don't buy a digital audio player but look for an iPod, people don't search - they Google.

Why the hell MS wants Yahoo?

Even with Yahoo they still cannot compete against Google.

Google is just too freaking large and embedded. MS waited far too long to react.

Wish I owned Yahoo stocks right now :(

This is just Microsoft's nice way of trying to take control of the internets.

So Yahoo is worth the combined values of the USA's active air-craft carriers?