Sunday 6 May 2007

Top 10 List: Why Microsoft and Yahoo Couldn't Marry

From:http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/top_10_list_why_microsoft_and_yahoo_couldnt_marry.html

The Microsoft-Yahoo rocky relationship started Friday with rumors of a merger and ended with word there would be no union. Why couldn't the companies pair up? We propose some reasons.
10. On Monday, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's incoming chief software architect, declared that AJAX was dead. Long live Silverlight.
9. Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is a foreign car kind of guy, while Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is strictly Detroit.
8. Steve Case, architect of the AOL Time Warner merger, made repeated "Boo Hoo!" crank calls to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates...

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