Ray Ozzie & Yahoo

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News

May28th2008

Oh, my, what in the world is going to happen with Yahoo, after all? To be honest, I wouldn't feel good at all to see that, after I say "NO," those trying to buy my company would still be talking about a future strategy involving a "YES," and it seems this is exactly what just happened! This time, we're not talking about Mr. Gates or Steve Ballmer, because it's all about Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, and the things he said at a Bernstein investor conference. So...what did he say?

"Yahoo was not a strategy onto itself. Yahoo is an accelerator. We'd love to still discuss possibilities with Yahoo," said Ozzie, and this makes me wonder. "Accelerator of what?"

According to some inside sources, it seems that, while Microsoft dropped the idea of buying Yahoo from head to toe, the last idea was to buy only their search business, and taking a stake in the rest of the company. Ehem...so this is what Microsoft was after! No surprise with that, anyway...

At last, I guess I should say it, although it may not be really nice - Microsoft, please stick to what you do, and try to make Windows 7 a good operating system, rather then trying to go where it's clear things are not going well for you - Internet search! Just my 5 cents...