Microsoft take over of Yahoo inc?

What does that mean for us die hard Yahoo users

Damn Microsoft if we wanted to use your services....we'd have MSN

What is a good alternative to Yahoo

Microsoft take over of Yahoo inc?norton 360

Yahoo! users should be worried. Microsoft has a long history of buying out innovative companies and products and subsequently turning them into Passport/Live/insert-buzzword-here clones with vastly inferior functionality than their previous iterations. And in time, these properties fade to grey while slowly losing popularity. For example, Hotmail used to be the largest webmail service in the world, now Yahoo! is far %26 away the largest (repotedly 255 million of the world's 543 million webmail users). The list of other such takeover targets that we now no longer recognize is very long indeed.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in his takeover letter to Yahoo!'s board of directors that they intend to "eliminate redundant infrastructure and duplicative operating costs" which is management-speak for layoffs, firing middle management at Yahoo, moving to Microsoft's technological and corporate structure, and other similar changes. Virtually all corporate takeovers of this sort are very negative to the employees at the company being purchased. It will be especially hard-hitting this time for Yahoo because of the vast difference in the way the two companies operate their businesses.