Response from: forexthinker.com    (10/17/08 3:36am)

Microsoft will certainly do well if it acquires Yahoo. Some of the reasons are: A great brand name on the Internet that is well established since the mid 1990s, users like me who are accustomed to doing a Yahoo search in addition to doing searches using Google, MSN, Ask.com and other search engines, and a Web site with popular features like geocities, Yahoo games, and chat. In addition to 275 million Yahoo e-mail users around the world.

Response from: Scott Wilson    (10/17/08 9:45am)

I'm not sure that's such a foregone conclusion, although I think the ground rules have changed a bit from when it was clearly a terrible idea. You're making a lot of assumptions about their ability to integrate the businesses which I don't think are necessarily warranted given the difficulty of merging such disparate technologies and cultures. With enough time, sure, it could work out well. In the short term... well, I notice you listed a Hotmail e-mail address... have you had it long enough to remember what a train-wreck the Hotmail Linux to Windows migration was? You could see the same thing writ large if Microsoft attempted to do what you seem to be suggesting with Yahoo.