Yahoo says "thanks but no thanks" to Microsoft!

With the recent unsolicited bid for 40 billion$ and odd, one may have thought that Yahoo would have jumped at the offer and sold the company lock, stock and barrel to Microsoft but then again, one would have been mistaken.

Microsoft is turning more and more into a band aid company ore more like a blob. It just keeps on buying other companies and amalgamating them to Microsoft. With the search engine wars barely started, the pie is divided three ways with the major chunk going to Google.

Yahoo is quite right to say no to Microsoft, as it is in a much more powerful position vis-a vis the search engine when compared to Microsoft. What is more, there is a very good chance that Yahoo can turn out to be more than equal to Google than Microsoft can. There is so much that Yahoo can do and the journey is long, so yeah, Yahoo is right to say 'thanks but no thanks'.

Microsoft gets battered down by Euro legals and slinks away!

We all either love or hate Microsoft and I am not going to tell you which one you should be. All i am saying is that this is something that Microsoft certainly deserved. In a way, taking the cue from the series "My name is Earl", if you do bad things, karma will make sure that bad things will happen to you . In the same way if you do good things, good things will happen to you. We all know what Microsoft has done in the past and it certainly is not something to be proud about. And now that they have been caught in the web of their own unfair business practises, well it is time to pay the piper, isn't it?
Microsoft has been fighting a rather and lengthy court case with the European courts which had held Microsoft guilty of 'unfair and unethical business practises'. What is more, they had fined Microsoft to the tune of 497 million euros ($613 million), which by the way is the highest amount fined on any organisation by the Euro courts. Naturally Microsoft had appealed against this decision and the court battles raged on. But is seems that Microsoft has decided to give up on its court battle with European courts of law and has decided to withdraw all complaints. In short, they are accepting the original verdict. Where does this leave Microsoft? Well it leaves them short of 619 million$ and that is one price tag that they are going to have to pay real soon. Hope that everyone has taken the lesson of the 'My name is Earl' from all of this!

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