Microsoft CEO jokes about Yahoo bid, Search users


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Blah blah blah, who cares.

As for the topic, I would agree with Ballmer in this instance. I mean, the approach he's taking is realistic. Not many people use Yahoo except those maybe tied up in the Yahoo content of email, games, chatrooms, and messenger. Hell, only time I'm at the Yahoo site is when I'm looking up movies or someone asks me to play a game on there.

Though, I don't see what all the fuss is about. I guess when you're CEO of a company like Microsoft, you can't wipe your butt without someone knowing.

God bless Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ives.

iWonder what MS would be like if Jobs took the helm. :whistle:

Jobs would get all the viruses. I'd be laughing knowing that the Mac is worse on security than windows and Linux/Unix is.

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Ballmer has the upper hand now, but what if he lets Yahoo live and have Google help it out...

It's in Google's best interest that #2 and 3 are roughly on par with each other, while it towers over them both.

There's no mistake, Yahoo is going down in the short term, but dead? I don't think so...

I think everyone who thinks MS is going downhill is jaded.

Just my opinion, based on the fact that there really aren't any more signs of that now than there were 10 years ago or any other time in the past.

-Spenser

Guess you don't read the news, windows install base is shrinking while Linux and Apple install bases are growing, quite rapidly. Coincidentally since the release of Vista ;)

Apple 40% market share growth in the past year alone:

Source

Linux 60% market share growth in the past year:

Source

Lets face it, Yahoo is worthless. Microsoft should just drop them now and laugh as Yahoo's shares plummet.

Live/MSN is even more worthless. It's worse than worthless, it loses revenue for MS annually. The only reason it continues to exist is because MS pumps $$$ into it from its other profitable products.

If MS wants to save Yahoo so much, MS could invest in Yahoo instead of trying to destroy Yahoo.

lol love it,that was a direct hit to Yahoo! fanboys :laugh:

Guess you don't read the news, windows install base is shrinking while Linux and Apple install bases are growing, quite rapidly. Coincidentally since the release of Vista ;)

Apple 40% market share growth in the past year alone:

Source

Linux 60% market share growth in the past year:

Source

Damn you telling this blatant lie,show us please the MS marketshare growth please,then u'll know what's happening

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display...1002235454.html

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Vista-Close...ses-82354.shtml

Troll

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Damn you telling this blatant lie,show us please the MS marketshare growth please,then u'll know what's happening

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display...1002235454.html

Troll

:laugh: You do realize that if Mac & Linux market share is growing, then Windows market share must be shrinking, right? It's simple mathematics.

And that link is about Windows Vista vs Windows XP.

Yeah poor Microsoft with it's millions and millions ( or even billions ) of computers using Windows..

Yeah if I was Microsoft I would be really afraid that next year Mac and Linux would rule the world after I just did a 30 Billion money offer.. :rolleyes:

PS: Everybody can accuse me of being a fan boy of Microsoft since I am MCSE and work a lot with Windows, but I also use Mac and Linux so I don't care about any company in a special way, I use what I need to get the job done in my costumers, even if it's Linux or MAC....

My point was that Eduard was quick to profanity and calling people a liar and troll. And all for not understanding how marketshare works (maybe it would help if he visualized a pie chart that summed up to 100%).

I don't care how wealthy Microsoft is. Nor what OS you run, or what certs you have.

I just don't think that members should be calling other members liars and trolls, especially when they aren't.

Live isn't too bad, after all, I was pretty happy with the Web Mail (Live Hotmail) while they were working on it till now. Live Messenger is also all I use, other clients seem very useless to me.

Vista isn't bad, but considering the amount of time, people expected more. But it still isn't a bad product, Microsoft just need to be careful with deadlines in future.

Office? Office has been going nicely, especially since the invention of the Ribbon. I personally don't see a problem with it. It's more efficient once you get used to it.

After all that, why bash Microsoft? They are going fine except the Longhorn/Vista "crisis", which shouldn't happen in future.

My point was that Eduard was quick to profanity and calling people a liar and troll. And all for not understanding how marketshare works (maybe it would help if he visualized a pie chart that summed up to 100%).

I don't care how wealthy Microsoft is. Nor what OS you run, or what certs you have.

I just don't think that members should be calling other members liars and trolls, especially when they aren't.

I wasn't exactly charging at you.. :)

But you have to realize how tired me and some other users who work in IT for some time now, became after having to hear every year * Next year Linux will take the world * or * Next year MAC will be the new Windows in market share *, when everything is the same year after year....

Growing 60% or 70% is nothing when the total market share is 0.7 or 1% for example..

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