Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors

[Starflyer]

Interesting.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/apr08/04-05LetterPR.mspx

 

[karenflower]

Here is Yahoo's rebuttal:

http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=303369

Pwned.

 

[yojimbo1]

hard to believe MSFT doesn't eventually prevail here

 

[BigHungry04]

Google is going down! Just kidding. Its like saying the samsung instinct is going to be the iPhone killer. When Sprint told me that, I just laughed and laughed.

 

[IJ Reilly]

hard to believe MSFT doesn't eventually prevail here

They may, but at what price? A nasty, prolonged proxy fight is going to run more and more Yahoo employees out the doors. They were already leaving in droves anyway. Microsoft will win a hollowed-out company. Microsoft must certainly know this, which makes me wonder if they aren't less interested in acquiring Yahoo than in getting them out of the way as competitors.