Comments on: Microsoft Makes Major Bid For Yahoo

$44.6 Billion Offer Comes As Search Engine Giant Prepares For Layoffs

[glidescube]

Wow that beats my bid. I offered $1.95!

[bobnjersey]

[But if capitalism means competition, surely buying out the competition is a non-sequitur?
[Posted by hypnotoad72 at 12:57 PM : Feb 01, 2008]

creative capitalism means selling products that are supposed to be tools that help you solve problems ... except they themselves become the problems ... and ms has the ''tools'' to solve it ... a $295/incident support fee.

creative capitalism means not having to bear any responsibility for any of this ... directly or indirectly ... as per their license agreement.

what other industry can do this ... sell garbage ... take no responsibility for it ... and charge you more to assist in making it something you can barely use?

[bobnjersey]

[They should focus on getting this 64 bit version of Vista working right, so that when 3 gigs isn''''t enough for everyone they have an operating system that actually works.]
[Posted by george2221 at 02:52 PM : Feb 01, 2008]

the next version will resolve that issue ... they''re working on it now.

[rikedoid]

Microsoft just missed with the right name for Vista. It should have been called "Vega", after that pos car.

There''s still time for them to use it on a new and improved search engine though. "Microsoft Vega Search". If they get hold of Yahoo!, it will work as well as the rest of their stuff and should be named accordingly.

I won''t even touch on what lack of competition accomplishes in a free market economy...

[antizion]

"Why does the wacky left that "Big Oil" makes less per gallon than the Federal Government.
The Government makes DOUBLE for doing NOTHING! ZERO WORK, ZERO PRODUCT!" - Posted by republic1776

Did you include all the tax rebates the oil companies take from the tax payers in corporate welfare? Didn''t think so.

The government supplies the oil companies with a trillion dollars worth of blood money to steal Iraqi oil for Israel and you say the government does not supply a produce?

1 million dead Iraqis, almost 4000 dead military IS a product that they get from the tax payer. It is your children''s blood. What is that worth?

[antizion]

Yeah... What America really needs is another monopoly. Or a bigger one. Anti-trust suit uncle sam? Didn''t think so. It will make it so much easier for the NSA''s illegal spy program to expand.

[hypnotoad72]

Didn''t Bill recently say he wanted to practice "creative capitalism" around the world, and to speed up the process? (and why more quickly? If I were to put on a tinfoil hat, I might asinine conjure the notion he''s trying to break the United States, but that wouldn''t help him very much. The $3 Windows+Office licenses he sells can''t get him very far in the end?)

And, yeah, that is asinine because he''s done too much to prove the opposite.

But if capitalism means competition, surely buying out the competition is a non-sequitur?

[michellem99-2009]

I use MSN,YAHOO,GOOGLE. Apple was before MS Windows..Vista that gets an F for FUNKING OUT, They want Yahoo..Who be next..I say they need to deal with a problem that need to be adderssed and force computer compaties to step up to the plate and give us the MS Windsows OS sofeware and not an image disc..I battled Dell on this for a year of my tech sopport ..got no where..That what MS should be doing..Not buying every thing in sight.

[bigmojobone]

MS sucks and Yahoo sucks. suck + suck = suck.
Posted by ELECTROFEX at 12:14 PM : Feb 01, 2008

ELECTRFLEX, what type of Computer& OS are you using to spew your blather on this blog?

[bobnjersey]

[As Bill put it... "People don''''t want bug fixes; features is what they want. There is no money fixing bugs"]
[Posted by republic1776 at 11:52 AM : Feb 01, 2008]

that attitude exists because there''s no liability for NOT fixing the bugs ... for which there should be.