{"id":25,"date":"2008-02-01T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:28:11","slug":"microsoft-to-yahoo-join-me-or-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to Yahoo – Join me or DIE"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Months of speculation, it finally happened.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/02\/01\/technology\/microsoft_yahoo\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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To me, it is obvious that Microsoft can’t compete with Google on their own, so they need help. It also didn’t hurt that Yahoo took a tumble on earnings last quarter. I love the way “Hostile Takeovers” are now called “Unsolicited Bids”. Makes it sound – well – less hostile. <\/p>\n

Sigh.. I guess I will have to leave my Yahoo Group once this happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Months of speculation, it finally happened. http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/02\/01\/technology\/microsoft_yahoo\/ To me, it is obvious that Microsoft can’t compete with Google on their own, so they need help. It also didn’t hurt that Yahoo took a tumble on earnings last quarter. I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}