Comments on: Microsoft places bid on Yahoo http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/02/01/microsoft-places-bid-on-yahoo/ Words of a startup CEO Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:36:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: John Sjölander http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/02/01/microsoft-places-bid-on-yahoo/#comment-11 John Sjölander Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:54:27 +0000 http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/02/01/microsoft-places-bid-on-yahoo/#comment-11 I think it was inevitable. The timing was just perfect. M$ has talked about being committed to search and internet advertising as their #1 priority for a couple of years. Yahoo! has a dip, and I guess that's what sealed the deal. I agree on your obsevations. And it's not only about prefering to be open. It's the one way to go. If M$ becomes the closed Internet company they will loose the game. Period. I think it was inevitable. The timing was just perfect. M$ has talked about being committed to search and internet advertising as their #1 priority for a couple of years. Yahoo! has a dip, and I guess that’s what sealed the deal.

I agree on your obsevations. And it’s not only about prefering to be open. It’s the one way to go. If M$ becomes the closed Internet company they will loose the game. Period.

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