910 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – Farm District
7. Microsoft can turn all of Washington state into one big server farm; Yahoo can’t do that for California
1010 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – ! Ahead
8. Microsoft can change its name to “Microsoft!”
1110 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – Exit
9. All the Yahooligans can finally cash out and act like grownups
1210 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – Media Merger
10. For an extra $5 billion, Microsoft can buy the Wall Street Journal and get a favorable story about the merger on Page 1 next to the article about Google actually being run by aliens
1310 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – 10 Reasons
Microsoft Should Not Buy Yahoo
Part 2: 10 Reasons Microsoft Should Not Buy Yahoo
1410 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – Caution: Obscurity Ahead
1. Microsoft’s acquisitions always get consumed and disappear into the Redmond maw
1510 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – Yahoo Dr.
2. Microsoft would rename Yahoo as Microsoft Search Engine 1.0
1610 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – Historic Web District
3. Microsoft would be better off spending its $50 billion on the next generation of technology instead of something two generations behind
1710 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – One Way
4. Sunny Sunnyvale and rainy Redmond will never mix
1810 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – Thruway Closed
5. Big technology acquisitions never work
1910 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – Yield With Notes
6. Ballmer won’t be able to resist telling the Yahooligans how to do their jobs
2010 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – No Do-Overs
7. Microsoft execs will be angry when they realize it was Google and not Yahoo that bought YouTube
2110 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – Speed Limit
8. Microsoft execs will be angry when they find the Yahoo infrastructure running on open source outperforms Microsoft operations running on Windows
2210 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – IE Only
9. Bill Gates will insist that Yahoo be made to work only on Internet Explorer
2310 Reasons Microsoft Should/Shouldn`t Buy Yahoo – ZZZ
10. Yahoos will be reduced to boohoos as Ray Ozzie presents a million-slide PowerPoint presentation on the excitement of Microsoft Live!
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