Microsoft's Yahoo foray signals its shaky grip on the desktop
nes...@wigner.berkeley.edu
WHO'S THE bigger loser from Microsoft's withdrawn bid for Yahoo?
Investors certainly punished the Internet company on Monday for
letting the prospective deal go away, and they enthusiastically
cheered Microsoft's abandonment of a $42 billion bid. But a jog
through the numbers, starting from before the software giant showed
its hand, suggests that it's actually Microsoft that has emerged most
damaged from the affair.
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> WHO'S THE bigger loser from Microsoft's withdrawn bid for Yahoo?
Micoshaft Corporation: Down by billions - lost 24 billion in share value
since trying to nab Yahoo. The mere fact that Yahoo said no probably
contributed to micoshaft downfall.
Jerry McBride
Is there something wrong with this picture? How do you justify loosing so
much money on a "non-deal" ?? Quite honestly, Balmer (a.k.a. BLAMER) should
loose his job over this one... It's nothing like tossing a chair around
during one of his well known temper tantrums... he wasted BILLIONS... in a
bad deal, gone bad...
Simply amazing... only Microsoft...
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Ezekiel
"Jerry McBride" <jmcb...@mail-on.us> wrote in message
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Errrr - How exactly did Ballmer waste "BILLIONS" on this non-deal?
> Simply amazing... only Microsoft...
Amazingly terrible reading comprehension.... only Jerry McBride.
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> Jerry McBride (jmcb...@mail-on.us)
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Homer
> Is there something wrong with this picture? How do you justify
> loosing so much money on a "non-deal" ??
Welcome to the wacky world of trading, where a company's perceived value
is based on expectation, and that expectation can be manipulated with
bullshit like Vapourware; dumping; profit forecasts based on wildly
speculative (or downright dishonest) sales figures; buffering sales with
"channel" partners (in crime); just the merest hint of a takeover;
discrediting and sabotaging the competition; employing spin-doctors to
artificially "sell" the idea that the company is thriving, through the
use of marketing gobbledygook; or just plain old-fashioned lying through
one's teeth about a company's future direction.
That manipulation not only comes in many ways, but it comes from many
places too, like right here in COLA for example. Witness how frantically
DooFuS (in particular) flooded COLA with anti-Linux vitriol on the very
day that the final OOXML votes were being cast. Coincidence? I think
not. He may as well wear a badge that reads "Microsoft Shill", it's that
obvious. Make no mistake, to him this is nothing personal, he's merely
doing his job, which is why he's never discouraged, no matter how
ridiculous or suspicious his behaviour, nor how decisively his vitriol
is rebuked.
What other possible motive could someone have for spending *years*
sabotaging a group that exists to serve the purposes of an alternative
to his chosen operating system? Surely he should be extolling the
virtues of Windows in a /Windows/ group, not sleeping with the enemy.
But that's the way thugs and gangsters operate. They don't play by the
rules, they extort; threaten; bribe; manipulate; lie; attack and destroy
to "succeed", and then bray about it like a pack of hyenas, overwhelmed
with "pride" in their path of destruction, too busy slavering over the
spoils to worry about trivialities like morality. The Microsoft shills
in this group are merely another arm of the Microsoft crime syndicate.
And that's exactly what Sweaty the Impaler does to further Microsoft's
cause, which is of course greed, so what better place to manipulate
people than at the stock exchange, where greed blinds people against the
menacing advances of manipulators like Ballmer.
Basically the only difference between the stock market and the dog track
is that, generally speaking, down at the track the dogs don't trying to
win by lying or ripping each other's throats out.
Sweaty the Impaler tried to fscking kill Google by attempting to eat
(what he thought was) one of the weaker dogs in the race (cowards always
attack the weak, just like hyenas), to become bigger and stronger, and
eliminate some of the competition (typical of the "Embrace, Extend and
Extinguish" paradigm). The ravenous punters got too excited and bet
heavily on the Vole to win, but lost it all when Yahoo unexpectedly bit
back, and sent the Vole whimpering back to the kennels, leaving Google
to streak across the finish line. Poetic justice.
That won't stop the Vole, of course, much like the pesky lack of money
doesn't stop a drug addict from getting a fix. They'll just keep mugging
other innocent victims until they get what they want. The only way to
"cure" that rabid dog, is to put it down.
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K.
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Roy Schestowitz
I was not the only bad deal. It's a serial kil...errr... acquisitive thing.
Windows and Office lose momentum (sinking sales) and both market cap and cash
balance decline (the money is being pushed into the stock, MSFT, as /real/
investors, including Bill Gates, depart).
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Roy Schestowitz
> ____/ Jerry McBride on Tuesday 06 May 2008 23:59 : \____
>
>> nes...@wigner.berkeley.edu wrote:
>>
>>> <Quote>
>>> WHO'S THE bigger loser from Microsoft's withdrawn bid for Yahoo?
>>> Investors certainly punished the Internet company on Monday for
>>> letting the prospective deal go away, and they enthusiastically
>>> cheered Microsoft's abandonment of a $42 billion bid. But a jog
>>> through the numbers, starting from before the software giant showed
>>> its hand, suggests that it's actually Microsoft that has emerged most
>>> damaged from the affair.
>>> </Quote>
>>>
>>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121002286060868719.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
>>
>> Is there something wrong with this picture? How do you justify loosing so
>> much money on a "non-deal" ?? Quite honestly, Balmer (a.k.a. BLAMER) should
>> loose his job over this one... It's nothing like tossing a chair around
>> during one of his well known temper tantrums... he wasted BILLIONS... in a
>> bad deal, gone bad...
>>
>> Simply amazing... only Microsoft...
>
> I was not the only bad deal. It's a serial kil...errr... acquisitive thing.
^t
> Windows and Office lose momentum (sinking sales) and both market cap and cash
> balance decline (the money is being pushed into the stock, MSFT, as /real/
> investors, including Bill Gates, depart).
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Linonut
The headline from the Wall Street Journal is telling:
Microsoft's Yahoo foray signals its shaky grip on the desktop
Ahh, what do /they/ know anyway?
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-- Bill Gates
Moshe Goldfarb
Why do you keep re-posting other messages over and over again without
adding any comments?
Post count getting low Roy Schestowitz?
Are your masters holding back your pay check?
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Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
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Ezekiel
"Linonut" <lin...@bollsouth.nut> wrote in message
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What a hypocrite. When you don't like the story then the WSJ is a "paid
shill" for Microsoft and can't be trusted and is corrupt because of
Microsoft advertising money. But when it's a headline/story you like then
suddenly the WSJ becomes credible.
Moshe Goldfarb
Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux advocacy.
These Linux loons pick and choose what makes Linux look good and slam and
try to discredit what makes Linux look bad, which is most stuff.
Gartner is Satan except when Gartner says Linux is growing then it is
valid.
These people, Linux loons, are nothing more than a collection of
hypocrites.