What is Microsoft talking about. Customers of Yahoo are saying NO!! Customers are saying that Yahoo is better off WITHOUT MICROSOFT s******* everything up further, not to mention making it proprietary to IE 7 only use.

This is exactly why it is calleda "hostile bid"_

Microsoft makes an offer to buy Yahoo_

Yahoo has no interest in being bought_

Microsoft pushes the issue anyway_

Since Yahoo is an open publicly traded company - there is nothing stopping Microsoft from buying up enough shares of Yahoo for a controlling interest in the company and then re-voting on the buy out/take over_

...hence Hostile Takeover_

I'm sure there's more to it - but that's it in a nutshell_

I don't see how Microsoft can be denied in the long run.

Whether it's a wise move, that's another issue. I have no doubt that Yahoo's best and brightest will leave, and MS will f*** things up such that Yahoo users will also desert the company.

MS doesn't know how to do anything other than acquire, absorb, and otherwise use brute force to get their way. "Innovation" is not at all a part of their DNA. Brute force only works for so long.

Just read the posts (like the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 10th, etc). They're not bashing the deal, they are specifically bashing MS. Not because they don't like the deal, but because it's MS. That's the obligatory MS bashing I was talking about.

Actually, it wasn't initially a hostile bid (as I was corrected on this before), but an unsolicited bid.

Now, if they continue with the offer/pushing for the buyout, then it becomes 'hostile'.

There are steps companies can take to avoid it - MS has a lot of money, but not infinite money. Yahoo can put expensive clauses in any buyout proposition.

Look the word up, Nat. "You're quick to trash posters here and to lament poor MS's unfair treatment..."

So Nat. You point to where that occurred in this thread. mkay?

meat (nice name by the way, come up with that yourself?).

As for your question, bucky, one word should do it...

testudo

Perhaps you're new to here and don't know the history, in which case all sins forgiven.

All clear now? I'm hear to help should you need further clarification.

You can't separate the deal from Microsoft, hard as you may want to. Good lord man! There's a history here that simply can't be ignored! If GM were trying to buy Yahoo! we'd be having a different discussion, but it's MS and everything about it, their motives, their intentions, is fair game.

Yes, one word Testudo. One of the VERY few objective views on this site; One who has been bashed time and time again for not kneeling at Apple's feet. He's right by starting off by 1st calling out, and 2nd, filtering out all of the usual MS bashing bullshit.

Micro -soooooft is trying anything to keep in the game but what micro-soft does not have the imagination to put really good products on the table the ideas are the same. After all this time (littleM) should be on top they wait and wait and then by the time they wake up the other company are ahead they did it with apple and the mp3 players and know they are doing it with Yahoo. I would love to see (littleM) step up and most important step out the box and the burn it.

hence, obligatory. (draws picture)

I've been checking the various 'NN sites for a while. Few things are more tedious than pointedly personal attacks where none is called for.

I share your distrust of probably all things microsoftian, but I also value perspective (on occasion ;) Try it, meat! :)

You can't separate the deal from Microsoft, hard as you may want to. Good lord man! There's a history here that simply can't be ignored! If GM were trying to buy Yahoo! we'd be having a different discussion, but it's MS and everything about it, their motives, their intentions, is fair game.

And that's fine. But, again, look at most of the posts on the first page. Very little have any discussion with regards to the deal. It's just MS-bashing for the sake of MS-bashing. So, exactly how does this aid in the discussion??