With $42 billion trying to transmogrify Microsoft into a Google Killer, there's a freight train full of digits rolling through Techmeme today. But all you need to know is right here at Machinist: Will they call it Microhoo? Yahosoft?
The essential problem is that what Microsoft and Yahoo lack, and what Google's got in spades, can't be gained through merger. Google's secret to success is not so secret at all. It has created the ultimate expression of Silicon Valley capitalism -- a company of engineers, a firm that elevates technical innovation as its core mission.Humm, you've got Microsoft looking to get it on with Yahoo? That's two stooges. Who could the get to be the third?Google's eating everyone's lunch simply because it makes things faster, better and more useful than anyone else -- and Microhoo will have no better way than Yahoo and Microsoft did to replicate that engineering feat.
Well, seems to me that the Republican Party is currently thirsting for death and likely to have some free time on its hands next year. And they've got a lot of Sooper Geniuses too.
Posted by Vanderleun at February 1, 2008 3:27 PM | TrackBackI'm trying to follow the thread. Big Bill leaves his place at the top of MS, gives us a big lecture on the evils of capitalism, and now the MS collective wants to assimilate Yahoo. I'm confused.
Maybe Gates was the 'kinder, gentler' face of relentless mergering after all. But I doubt it.
(NYT + Boston Globe = Microsoft + Yahoo)?
Saddling themselves with the Bean Town Dead Tree probably didn't cost 42 XXL, but the comparison holds, I think.
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