Microsoft + Yahoo

Post by **Deques** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:09 pm

The big M$ has put a bid on Yahoo approx 44,6 billion dollars.
If this happens then another big company is going to be gone from the market.

The last big take-over I can remember is Adobe bought Macromedia.
Now Microsoft is planning to take over Yahoo!!

Yahoo might be history soon

Post by **Faalstar** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:47 pm

Good...
Good...

Post by **Ailise** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:53 pm

Yahoo? what's that?

Actually I'm kinda sad about the whole Adobe - Macromedia thingy.
As now Adobe don't have to compete anymore... they hardly create a lot of new feature on their software but still sell them at a crazy prize which no one can affords. (still seems everyone has it

)

Post by **DeadWolf** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:01 pm

I don't really like Yahoo. Maybe Microsoft will do some good for it.

Post by **Tsurayu** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:05 pm

Enslaven00bs wrote:I don't really like Yahoo. Maybe Microsoft will do some good for it.

Tell me you didn't say that with a straight face. <.<

When has Microsoft done any one any good for anything? <.<

Post by **Ailise** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:18 pm

I'm not a Microsoft lover or anything... but with all the money they make they must have done something right

Post by **Tsurayu** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:19 pm

Yeah I liked them just fine until they entered the video game market and released Vista. Anyone who actually uses Vista and isn't a Microsoft spokesperson, or in some other way affiliated with them, will tell you that Vista is a piece of dung. <.<

Post by **Ailise** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:34 pm

Well... I use Vista... and Deques use Vista

and we have nothing to do with Microsoft.

Vista may be annoying at some parts (like the UAC) and besides all the RAM it needs, it's a pretty good OS. So far no crashes or problems... and security is like ultra high (little too "annoying" high).

About the Xbox I don't know anything about it, never had one.

Post by **Tsurayu** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:42 pm

Not to mention the pain of having to install old and weird drivers to hook up certain extensions that are older than like two years of age like a printer, scanner, web cam...

What bugs me right now is that I can't even change the language. It's locked out to anyone who doesn't have Vista Ultimate or Vista Enterprise. That's some major crap.

Post by **DeadWolf** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:08 am

Tsurayu wrote:Yeah I liked them just fine until they entered the video game market and released Vista. Anyone who actually uses Vista and isn't a Microsoft spokesperson, or in some other way affiliated with them, will tell you that Vista is a piece of dung. <.<

I have to agree with you that Vista sucks. If they had a lite version I would consider it. It's WAY too bloated.

As far as video games Microsoft is the best thing to happen to it.

Post by **Deques** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:20 am

Ever since I got Vista it gave almost same amount crashes as with XP. So its not free from problems.
Sometimes when I put a usb memory stick the entire os freezes and never gets unfrozen. So i have to restart the computer.
I wonder if I have youtube page on and put the memory stick has something to do. cause it always happens when i have youtube video playing

Post by **Densetsu no Alact?** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:18 am

Yahoo! is not so well known here in Sweden, it's very popular in southeast asia though. probably because one of it's co-founder is an asian. anyway the reason Microsoft bought Yahoo is because they want to be able to stand against Google.

Post by **IrishLuiz** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:43 pm

Agh i hate microsoft, and i love Adobe (read: i cant buy their prices, but i use....). Still what i hate AT MOST, is Corel!!!!! I dream with day day i will never need to convert my photoshop, illustrator, in design (all adobe programs) into Corel for printing. Why do people still insist on using Corel Draw when we have Illustrator at hand ???

Post by **IrishLuiz** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:45 pm

Dont you guys think Google is a little bit scary ? I mean, some people think Google will dominate the world, and that at this precise moment Google is watching our lives.....

Oh i love these technological urban legends.

Post by **Ailise** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:04 am

At least in Sweden with all sorts of graphics and printing things I have come in touch with I have never seen anything related to Corel Draw. It's all been TIFF or EPS or Indesign or Gerber(Omega/Composer, what ever they name their stuff).
I like Adobe... I just hate that they bought Macromedia just because they couldn't beat them on the web.

And Google, it's all PR. They may have all this things/applications, but it's all beta and nothing solid. No big serious pro company does use their google docs, they stay with MS Office (I read some article about this). Google get most their income by ads and directional searches.