My ZDNet blogging colleague Larry Dignan asks what Yahoo;s Plan B will likely be,
Office Pro 2007 Key, now that it reportedly is turning down Microsoft;s $44 acquisition billion bid mainly because it is also minimal.(Update: The leakers had been right. Yahoo did reject Microsoft;s provide, claiming it was too low. And now Yahoo is supposedly speaking merger with AOL. AOL??? Like that is meant to scare Microsoft sufficient to up its give?)Meanwhile I am wondering about the flip-side of this equation: What's Microsoft;s Strategy B if it fails to snag Yahoo?For my part,
Office 2007 Activation Key, I feel being thwarted in its bid to get Yahoo may wind up being the top factor that could occur to Microsoft. Does Microsoft actually have to have 14,000 more employees and a variety of properties that are redundant with what it currently provides? CEO Steve Ballmer & Co. seem to think so. But couldn;t Microsoft just obtain a bunch of point products,
Office Pro 2007 Key, instead of a big, flailing Web 2.0 company? It would be a whole lot easier to digest a bunch of smaller companies and independent,
Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2010, standalone services than a big honking entity like Yahoo….I;m sure Microsoft was expecting Yahoo to try to up the asking price. But offered that Yahoo seems to possess few alternatives to accepting Microsoft;s give,
Office Professional Plus, I wonder how considerably higher the Softies is going to be willing to go…What do you believe Microsoft should do, now that the Yahoo ball is back in its own court? Should Microsoft raise its offer? Call Yahoo;s bluff? Let Google come charging in as the “hero” — as nicely as the canary in the antitrust coal mine? Or start snapping up a bunch of point products that would give Microsoft the inventory it needs to attract much more online publishers who are interested in ABG (Anything But Google)?