{"id":360,"date":"2008-02-01T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2008-02-04T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T09:00:16","slug":"microsoft-wants-to-buy-yahoo-desperation-and-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/microsoft-wants-to-buy-yahoo-desperation-and-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo: desperation and disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7222114.stm\">Microsoft is bidding for Yahoo<\/a>.\u00a0 It has offered to buy\u00a0 Yahoo for $44.6 billion in cash and shares.\u00a0 The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo&#8217;s board, is 62% above Yahoo&#8217;s closing share price yesterday. Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional $300m this year trying to revive the company.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s intent smacks of desperation as it tries to retain some preeminence in computing.\u00a0 Its operating system still keeps the company alive, but its technology is lagging behind that of rivals, expecially in the open source space.\u00a0 Its forays into entertainment are working, but this is not a sector where they can claim excellence or pioneering work.<\/p>\n<p>Our big concern, however, is the danger that MS culture will take over Yahoo, which has provided a far more open and honest search engine than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google-watch.org\/\">Google<\/a>. Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google-watch.org\/krane.html\">privacy policy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google-watch.org\/bigbro.html\">ownership<\/a> should be an issue for all internet users &#8211; that is why Yahoo is referenced on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astraea.net\/\">astraea.net<\/a> rather than google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is bidding for Yahoo.\u00a0 It has offered to buy\u00a0 Yahoo for $44.6 billion in cash and shares.\u00a0 The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo&#8217;s board, is 62% above Yahoo&#8217;s closing share price yesterday. Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional $300m this year &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/microsoft-wants-to-buy-yahoo-desperation-and-disaster\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo: desperation and disaster<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-5O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}