Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Nov 2008 09:25 UTC, submitted by Oh! Ballmer
Steve Ballmer said at an economic forum in Sydney today that any new Yahoo deal was totally of the cards, despite Yahoo's share price being less than half Microsoft's initial offer. At same time, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said that "I believe the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo." Google pulled out of its deal with Yahoo! earlier this week.
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Although Yahoo is struggling, I usually prefer an independent company over one owned by another with competing products (usually means something is going to be killed off in favor of the owner's products, which is not always better). I know Yahoo kind of got shot in the foot with the Google deal falling through, and now no hopes of Microsoft ever coming close to the deal they had before.
The main question I have is, what is Yahoo's plans to stay afloat? More and more people seem to be leaving in droves to competitor products and services: Yahoo Mail to GMail, Yahoo Messenger to AIM, Yahoo! Search to Google, etc. Unfortunately, I cannot think of a single Yahoo product or service I *personally* use or prefer over someone else's as an average computer user.