Star Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th May 2008 07:19 UTC, submitted by sonic2000gr
Microsoft Earlier this year, Microsoft offered to purchase search engine company Yahoo, however, the board of directors of Yahoo shot the offer down beause it 'massively' undervalued the company. This ignited an acquisition dance that took a few months, and rumours were abound as to what either of the two would do next.
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RE[2]: CORRECTION
by sbergman27 on Mon 5th May 2008 00:33 UTC in reply to "RE: CORRECTION"
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They (correctly) identified the importance of web control before almost anyone else did, however they have not really been able to land a solid strategy for competition.

Despite the fact that they have always had so much control over the client platform. One would not have thought it possible for them to drop this ball.

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