Microsoft's Ballmer hopes for Yahoo talks

http://www.reuters.com/article/techn...52I5AF20090319 one wonders if M$$ waited for this Financial Crisis to make a smaller deal or whatever with yahoo

[Jake]

You know, I honestly don't see why "Yahoo!" is made to be known as a bad company, and someone fired just because they didn't except a buy out. IMO, that's a bit out of order, why should Yahoo have to except the buyout even if they don't want to? is it because it's MS?

i think the old CEO of Yahoo was probably ignorant an just couldnt reach an agree'd deal with M$$ , but maybe with a New CEO of yahoo a new deal could be reached, but how many uses would dump yahoo mail if the deal goes through

[Jake]

I know I will.

i dont even use Yahoo Mail nore do i use there messanger service

[Jake]

Which email service do you use? I mainly use gmail and hotmail (hotmail as it's a years and years old account and has a lot of valuable emails and has free pop/smtp like gmail)

[Noblacktie]

Originally Posted by Jake

You know, I honestly don't see why "Yahoo!" is made to be known as a bad company, and someone fired just because they didn't except a buy out. IMO, that's a bit out of order, why should Yahoo have to except the buyout even if they don't want to? is it because it's MS?

Jerry Yang had the misfortune of Yahoo! stocks tanking shortly after the rejection of Microsoft's bid, which resulted in returns much, much lower than what they would have netted from the 60-percent premium offered in the buyout.

Plus, Yang wasn't actually taking Yahoo! anywhere. The combination of lacklustre leadership possibly contributed to his departure but probably not as much as the ire of stockholders pissed off at watching the MS gravy train pass them by

Originally Posted by Jake

Which email service do you use? I mainly use gmail and hotmail (hotmail as it's a years and years old account and has a lot of valuable emails and has free pop/smtp like gmail)

i use aim mail . i did use gmail previously but its getting to the point where it doesnt work the way i want it to, i had them configured into Thunderbird properly but itt wouldnt delete mail properly . i only now use Gmail 1 account, well 2 but ones a MSN addy i do not use for email eventually i'll shut it down an move over to aim mail as my msn addy, but i also get POP mail with aim i cant remember how much Gigs i can store in it but i only need a small amount

[Jake]

Originally Posted by Demz

i use aim mail . i did use gmail previously but its getting to the point where it doesnt work the way i want it to, i had them configured into Thunderbird properly but itt wouldnt delete mail properly . i only now use Gmail 1 account, well 2 but ones a MSN addy i do not use for email eventually i'll shut it down an move over to aim mail as my msn addy, but i also get POP mail with aim i cant remember how much Gigs i can store in it but i only need a small amount

I rarely sign into MSN, being a long term Linux user, why do you want MSN? xD

I've never really used aim, but I got 5 emails as it is, so I'm not going to go check it

TB works fine for me with G.

Originally Posted by Jake

I rarely sign into MSN, being a long term Linux user, why do you want MSN? xD

I've never really used aim, but I got 5 emails as it is, so I'm not going to go check it

TB works fine for me with G.

i think a lot use MSN just dont use hotmail addy with it, if i could put my msn buddies on my aim list i would an get rid of msn

[tech291083]

Now we will have service packs for Yahoo mails. YSP1, YSP2, YSP3.................

we probably will if this deal goes through