Comments on: MSFT and Yahoo: Nom nom nom http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/30/msft-and-yahoo-nom-nom-nom/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: antje wilsch http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/30/msft-and-yahoo-nom-nom-nom/comment-page-1/#comment-374922 antje wilsch Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:20:36 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3697#comment-374922 I make my living off of MSFT products and use them extensively (.NET development). I am not afraid to be the first to criticize nor the first to praise even if it's not cool among my techie friends to defend them. <br><br>Microsoft needs to get it together. It needs to understand what it wants to be. It's like it's having a midlife crisis trying ot figure out what's next or "is this my life?" I think it needs some new meat gunning the ship, one who gets the web and where things are moving. They keep changing their name, putting out shoddy products that push even loyal users slowly away, and are all over the map. They have divisions that overlap work and don't even talk to each other. Way too many meetings, way too little QA, way too little user acceptance. Just b/c they put out some funny commericals on Vista doesn't mean that Vista doesn't give me all sorts of headaches. <br><br>Capturing yahoo is either going to make both of them irrelevant eventually by mucking it up, or if they could figure out how to use the best from both, get a consistent name branding thing going on, fix the flaws, then they can win. I make my living off of MSFT products and use them extensively (.NET development). I am not afraid to be the first to criticize nor the first to praise even if it's not cool among my techie friends to defend them.

Microsoft needs to get it together. It needs to understand what it wants to be. It's like it's having a midlife crisis trying ot figure out what's next or “is this my life?” I think it needs some new meat gunning the ship, one who gets the web and where things are moving. They keep changing their name, putting out shoddy products that push even loyal users slowly away, and are all over the map. They have divisions that overlap work and don't even talk to each other. Way too many meetings, way too little QA, way too little user acceptance. Just b/c they put out some funny commericals on Vista doesn't mean that Vista doesn't give me all sorts of headaches.

Capturing yahoo is either going to make both of them irrelevant eventually by mucking it up, or if they could figure out how to use the best from both, get a consistent name branding thing going on, fix the flaws, then they can win.

]]> By: antje wilsch http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/30/msft-and-yahoo-nom-nom-nom/comment-page-1/#comment-344457 antje wilsch Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:20:36 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3697#comment-344457 I make my living off of MSFT products and use them extensively (.NET development). I am not afraid to be the first to criticize nor the first to praise even if it's not cool among my techie friends to defend them. <br><br>Microsoft needs to get it together. It needs to understand what it wants to be. It's like it's having a midlife crisis trying ot figure out what's next or "is this my life?" I think it needs some new meat gunning the ship, one who gets the web and where things are moving. They keep changing their name, putting out shoddy products that push even loyal users slowly away, and are all over the map. They have divisions that overlap work and don't even talk to each other. Way too many meetings, way too little QA, way too little user acceptance. Just b/c they put out some funny commericals on Vista doesn't mean that Vista doesn't give me all sorts of headaches. <br><br>Capturing yahoo is either going to make both of them irrelevant eventually by mucking it up, or if they could figure out how to use the best from both, get a consistent name branding thing going on, fix the flaws, then they can win. I make my living off of MSFT products and use them extensively (.NET development). I am not afraid to be the first to criticize nor the first to praise even if it's not cool among my techie friends to defend them.

Microsoft needs to get it together. It needs to understand what it wants to be. It's like it's having a midlife crisis trying ot figure out what's next or “is this my life?” I think it needs some new meat gunning the ship, one who gets the web and where things are moving. They keep changing their name, putting out shoddy products that push even loyal users slowly away, and are all over the map. They have divisions that overlap work and don't even talk to each other. Way too many meetings, way too little QA, way too little user acceptance. Just b/c they put out some funny commericals on Vista doesn't mean that Vista doesn't give me all sorts of headaches.

Capturing yahoo is either going to make both of them irrelevant eventually by mucking it up, or if they could figure out how to use the best from both, get a consistent name branding thing going on, fix the flaws, then they can win.

]]> By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/30/msft-and-yahoo-nom-nom-nom/comment-page-1/#comment-344444 mathewi Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:24:57 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3697#comment-344444 That's a fair point, Daniel -- maybe I should have said the Sun or the News of the World :-) That's a fair point, Daniel — maybe I should have said the Sun or the News of the World :-)

]]> By: Daniel Gibbons http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/30/msft-and-yahoo-nom-nom-nom/comment-page-1/#comment-344437 Daniel Gibbons Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:27:27 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3697#comment-344437 "If it had appeared in the Daily Mail or the Inquirer or something like that, then I would be dubious."<br><br>Ouch!! The Daily Mail is a pretty horrible newspaper, but I don't think they're known for poorly-sourced tech. stories. Fear-mongering about immigrants, single mothers and gays is more their line. “If it had appeared in the Daily Mail or the Inquirer or something like that, then I would be dubious.”

Ouch!! The Daily Mail is a pretty horrible newspaper, but I don't think they're known for poorly-sourced tech. stories. Fear-mongering about immigrants, single mothers and gays is more their line.

]]> By: Alistairc http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/30/msft-and-yahoo-nom-nom-nom/comment-page-1/#comment-344433 Alistairc Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:25:55 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3697#comment-344433 I'm gonna second that, Matthew. I hear rumblings from folks who should know about some sort of bastardized Yahoo/Facebook/Myspace frankenmerger, swirling around this week. Something's definitely in play -- and Icann is buying up Yahoo.<br><br>Facebook could do right by the ad platform (Overture) that Yahoo has built. Maybe the Three Gorillas will be Microsoft, Google, and Facemyhoo. Strange times call for strange measures. I'm gonna second that, Matthew. I hear rumblings from folks who should know about some sort of bastardized Yahoo/Facebook/Myspace frankenmerger, swirling around this week. Something's definitely in play — and Icann is buying up Yahoo.

Facebook could do right by the ad platform (Overture) that Yahoo has built. Maybe the Three Gorillas will be Microsoft, Google, and Facemyhoo. Strange times call for strange measures.

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