Archive for February 2008

Dave understands why Balmer wants Y!

February 10, 2008

From yahooMicrosoftReloaded.html “BTW, I think I understand why Ballmer wants Yahoo!When Yahoo engineers wake up they program stuff likeYahoo Live, which is pretty cool and runs on the web, and while it steals ideas from smaller companies, it adds some pretty cool stuff of its own.When Microsoft engineers wake up they program stuff like Vista, a multi-year, multi-billion dollar waste of money, time and customer goodwill. They can’t do another Vista without wrecking the franchise. Now the question is — where do they go for growth? That’s what Yahoo is for. “