Microsoft Says It Won't Uproot Yahoo
Posted by Justin- via Breitbart.com on 24 February 2008 - 11:51 · 7 comments & 5077 views
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#1 Posted by James Riske on 24 Feb 2008 - 22:00
- Never believe anything a continually law breaking monopoly tells you.
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#2 Posted by michael.dobrofsky on 25 Feb 2008 - 00:08
- At least there's GMail if they screw with Yahoo Mail.
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#3 Posted by JaggerD on 25 Feb 2008 - 02:19
- Actually I was kind of hoping that MS would take the reins. Just so I could see what it would be like.
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#4 Posted by A Clockwork Lime on 25 Feb 2008 - 06:56
- All you have to do is read the very first line of the article and see how full of **** they are. That they won't "totally" uproot Yahoo from Sunnyvale. That's all they said. Nothing about the actual employees (except that they'll pay them off nicely when they can them later in the article) or services. Just that, basically, they won't sell the building(s) the day after they acquire the company.
What a joke.
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#6 Posted by Magallanes on 25 Feb 2008 - 12:38
- For good of bad, Microsoft is a better place to works over Yahoo and Google with many benefits, and you can works safety for many years without worry to be fired for a "reduce cost" measure.
"In bringing the companies together, we would be committed to maintaining Yahoo's significant presence in Silicon Valley," wrote Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, in an e-mail to employees. Johnson noted that Microsoft employs 1,800 people in nearby Mountain View.
Johnson's comments seem aimed at responding to Yahoo's decision to adopt new severance plans earlier in the week. All the company's full- time workers who lose their jobs without "cause" or quit "for good reason" after a Microsoft takeover would continue to receive salary and health insurance for four to 24 months, plus other benefits.