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What will Jerry Yang do when Microsoft buys Yahoo!?: 5 questions on the eve of the acquisition

Microsoft made a $44.6 billion offer to buy Yahoo! on February 1, 2008, and since then we've been waiting to see what happens next. While nothing officially has been announced, there is speculation that the deal may be nearing its next phase. Yahoo! hasn't come up with a miracle deal to save...

Posted to OurView: The Opinion Blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 03-30-2008
Reflections on Mix08: (nearly) 72 hours of conversation

I'm not a road warrior. I've attended three Butterfly Tours, two MVP Summits, two Gnomedexes, and some various one day events (mostly in Redmond), but this is the first big tech conference I've attended outside of Seattle. Just to get the logistics out of the way, I had great flights both...

Posted to OurView: The Opinion Blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 03-08-2008
Musings on MSFT-YHOO

I keep dropping stuff in both the NewsGator Clippings folder and del.icio.us on our MSFT-YHOO page , but since Dare was kind enough to work up a chart I was just thinking about, I thought I would add a few thoughts of my own (as well as a couple of additions to his chart - DJIA and YHOO): (click on the...

Posted to OurView: The Opinion Blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 02-27-2008
Re-branding Microsoft

In our conversation with Bill Gates at Mix n Mash last December, Jonathon Snook opened up a can of worms by asking Gates about Microsoft and innovation: Jonathan Snook : There's a myth that Microsoft doesn't innovate. How do you feel that Microsoft can change that attitude? BILL GATES: We can't...

Posted to OurView: The Opinion Blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 02-24-2008
MSFT-YHOO: Why this deal makes sense for Microsoft

As Microsoft and Yahoo! continue to entertain us with what is becoming great high theatre, we've been hearing a couple of themes repeated over and over by the bloggers and journalists. First, that this acquisition is some kind of desperate act by Steve Ballmer and Microsoft, a last gasp effort to...

Posted to OurView: The Opinion Blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 02-12-2008
MSFT-YHOO: Striking while the iron is hot

Today's announcement by Microsoft that it is offering $31/share to purchase Yahoo! outright sees Microsoft doing the right thing at the right time. Why? For a number of reasons, not the least of which being that Microsoft has been planning this for quite some time. The first indication of that, of...

Posted to OurView: The Opinion Blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 02-01-2008