<![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> @NerdySomething: I'm waiting for him to mention 608,535,012 galaxies.

matto

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> @NerdySomething: We're going to have to do something about that comment. Amazing.

Nicholas Carlson

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> @matto: Thanks for the warm welcome.

He's actually already got my vote for commenter of the week at very minimum. Better yet, he deserves his own top 10 list or a place on the VW editorial team as a contributor.

NerdySomething

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> all your base are belong to us

....ironic sergey and larry are worth about 40 billion combined.....

roostah

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> @NerdySomething: His comments have entertained me an order of magnitude more than your sum total contribution here. Did you register just to submit that gem?

matto

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> @bigdowro: (Notorious) Bigdowro, step away from the keyboard. I repeat...step away from the keyboard.

NerdySomething

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> Here is my advice... I already wrote it under the Yahoo letter thread!!! MS should start an underground secret team and kick Google's ass..

Here is a true story... I once foresaw in a dream that Microsoft was planning to build a new office building in Cologne. As Valleywag wrote that article about Bill Gates on Facebook and I did not have Steve Ballmer's email, I wrote to the email on the Valleywag blog here...

I included some topics like symbolic formula entry for Excel and other ideas to wrap it up. I really thought I had psychic abilities... I am not kidding, once I bought a DVD called Mindbenders about Uri Geller and sang the songs in the movie all my way home, or predicted trivial stuff, like a menu at Xmas at my auntie and other crazy stuff...

To put it in a nutshell, I wrote an email to Mr. Gates that he should follow my idea and create a secret task force team with the best programmer's in the world... I cited names like John R. Coza the GA-guy and other names, but I had no clue whom else.

I said: Mr. Gates shover 'em with billions of dollars; go stealth, - and if you think, take over Yahoo! as a manoeuvre to put sand in your enemies eyes, - but fot God's sake , pls hire me; and let me be on board or at least follow my plan through...

Well I gues I had overdone this, but I thought it was a symbolic dream I had...

Guess what? I got a reply from some OEM Manager I had known before; who told me about the Unsollicted Idea Submission Policy, and said I had good ideas and should study on, then I might join Microsoft one day...

I was completely desillusioned by Microsoft. Okay I might habe overdone the "I am on a mission" / "I have prophetic abilities" thing, but I swear to God it is 100 percent true. I even offered to volunteer a lie detection test... Yet I got an answer from Mr. Gates' assistant or whoever.

I don't know... I have a bad feeling that Microsoft ist going to acquire Yahoo! My idea about the above top secret task force would have been funnier and would have a surprise momentum at least. And hiring me officially at the cafeteria of an MS Office and inofficial having me on a top secret task force team, be it as the guy to organize food, concierge services, and what else the top programmer's would have needed, and as a sort of mascot / good luck guy, wouldn't have ruinied Microsoft either.

bigdowro

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> @matto: What you say !!
You know what you doing.
For great justice.

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]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> "Negotiate?" Why don't they just sumo wrestle for it?

snarkotic

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> You will be assimilated into the Borg.

risimini

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> @random_play: A little perspective for those of us who were starting to suspect that rickrolling was old meme?

matto

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> Dear Yahoo,

YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION.

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME.

HA HA HA HA ...

Sincerely yours,

Steven A. Ballmer Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporation


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]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> Question is, which is worse for Yahoo:
- being bought by the evil empire, OR
- seeing your share price decline by 50% or more.

xhooter

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> Whats a yahoo? I looked it up on google and wikipedia but their historical records dont date back that far. I do know Microsoft, they invented that blue screen virus.

Fanning

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> @BobDope: You watch "Bush's War" too? [www.pbs.org]

Nicholas Carlson

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> The go-to comparison here is GWB's 'you got 48 hours' ultimatum to Saddam and Uday and Qusay in March of 2003. That went well.

BobDope

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> Resistance is futile. Lower your shields, or I will fucking kill you.

ballmer

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> But the Pipes, what about the Pipes???

matto

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> @Nicholas Carlson: Let's be honest. The only reason to buy Yahoo is for Yahoo Sports.

Dweezil

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> @HiQCode: Not it's shuttle buses?

Nicholas Carlson

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> "During these two months of inactivity, the Internet has continued to march on, ..., ... . At the same time, public indicators suggest that Yahoo!'s search and page view shares have declined."

MS wants Yahoo for it's web properties.

HiQCode

]]> <![CDATA[Ballmer's angry letter gives Yahoo board three weeks]]> Short version - "We're gonna get you whether you like it or not...just bend over and take it and everyone will be happy!"

kilvano

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