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Yahoo and Microsoft deal

Discussion in 'General News' started by damanali, Jul 29, 2009.

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  1. damanali

    damanali Well-Known Member

    http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090729/ttc-us-it-company-internet-yahoo-microso-0de2eff.html

    can anybody explain what will happen? will there be a sort of effect to users of yahoo and microsoft products?
     
    damanali, Jul 29, 2009
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    just saw that on the news. So long as microsoft don't touch yahoo mail or yahoo finance I'm not really bothered.
     
    Loonylion, Jul 29, 2009
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  3. dhanash

    dhanash Well-Known Member

    they really shouldnt have done that
     
    dhanash, Jul 30, 2009
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  4. insanecrazy07

    insanecrazy07 Well-Known Member

    Why is it that anything Microsoft touches, they ruin?
    Why release the same Office bullshit year after year, when you can use an older one that does the same thing? Why rearrange the entire layout of MS Word when it was fine the way it was? Why release .docx or .xlsx when the regular .doc and .xls formats are fine?

    Why buy an inferior OS to the one before it?
    Why ruin the entire internet just because Microsoft wants in? (exaggerating)
     
    insanecrazy07, Jul 30, 2009
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  5. dhanash

    dhanash Well-Known Member

    its all about the buisness and making money......
     
    dhanash, Jul 30, 2009
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  6. damanali

    damanali Well-Known Member

    I read a while ago, its was a merger of yahoo and microsoft because yahoo was near to bankruptcy due to google being the best search engine in the net. but i'm not sure if thats true.
     
    damanali, Jul 30, 2009
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  7. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no, microsoft tried to buy out yahoo several times, but yahoo refused.
     
    Loonylion, Jul 30, 2009
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  8. dhanash

    dhanash Well-Known Member

    but it seems like they fell to ms feet now huh?
     
    dhanash, Jul 30, 2009
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  9. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no, this isn't a buyout.
     
    Loonylion, Jul 30, 2009
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  10. dhanash

    dhanash Well-Known Member

    so its? (i couldnt load romu just now mr admin what happened?)
     
    dhanash, Jul 30, 2009
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  11. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    its a co-operation more or less. Yahoo uses bing for their search engine, and in return gets to keep 88% of the advertising revenue.

    also we had a database lock, needed a server restart.
     
    Loonylion, Jul 30, 2009
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  12. dhanash

    dhanash Well-Known Member

    ohk i thought something was wrong with me......
    well id say bing is much more graphically advanced and holistically will make a big impact
     
    dhanash, Jul 30, 2009
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  13. sonyuser333

    sonyuser333 Active Member

    Doesn't sound too bad.
     
    sonyuser333, Jul 30, 2009
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