Comments on: Are Their Pigs Flying Above Our Heads? Has Hell Frozen Over? http://www.metzener.com/switcherblog/2008/06/13/are-their-pigs-flying-above-our-heads-has-hell-frozen-over/ Impressions of OS X and the Macintosh from a former Windows user Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:41:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Rahul http://www.metzener.com/switcherblog/2008/06/13/are-their-pigs-flying-above-our-heads-has-hell-frozen-over/comment-page-1/#comment-851 Rahul Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:52:01 +0000 http://www.metzener.com/switcherblog/2008/06/13/are-their-pigs-flying-above-our-heads-has-hell-frozen-over/#comment-851 I think I can guess why - will they look like saints? Very likely yes - but saints also look after their own interests. In this case, by partnering with Yahoo!, they have essentially made sure that Microsoft cannot attempt a take over of the online search and advertising space. Let me explain: Were Microsoft to offer Yahoo! a fantastic deal (say $50 a share), and should it be finalized, you would still have Microsoft essentially dependent on Google for a part of its online revenues, which is what Google has wanted all along. Besides Yahoo!, Microsoft has no other option but to let go of the online space or try to (in vain in my opinion) compete with both Yahoo! and Google on their own. You see, Microsoft has, all these years, remained smug in the knowledge that it is the platform provider and everyone else will be dependent on it, thus ensuring its perpetuity. Come Google, and the offline platform is becoming more irrelevant by the minute, and this has struck fear in and shakes the very core of Microsoft's philosophy and being. You can rest assured, they will fight tooth and nail to make sure the Y-G deal does not crystallize - but in my opinion - they will falter and they will fail. Moral of the story - DON'T BE EVIL!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('851','Rahul'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('851','Rahul','I think I can guess why - will they look like saints? Very likely yes - but saints also look after their own interests. In this case, by partnering with Yahoo!, they have essentially made sure that Microsoft cannot attempt a take over of the online search and advertising space.\r\n\r\nLet me explain: Were Microsoft to offer Yahoo! a fantastic deal (say $50 a share), and should it be finalized, you would still have Microsoft essentially dependent on Google for a part of its online revenues, which is what Google has wanted all along. Besides Yahoo!, Microsoft has no other option but to let go of the online space or try to (in vain in my opinion) compete with both Yahoo! and Google on their own.\r\n\r\nYou see, Microsoft has, all these years, remained smug in the knowledge that it is the platform provider and everyone else will be dependent on it, thus ensuring its perpetuity. Come Google, and the offline platform is becoming more irrelevant by the minute, and this has struck fear in and shakes the very core of Microsoft\'s philosophy and being. \r\n\r\nYou can rest assured, they will fight tooth and nail to make sure the Y-G deal does not crystallize - but in my opinion - they will falter and they will fail.\r\n\r\nMoral of the story - DON\'T BE EVIL!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I think I can guess why - will they look like saints? Very likely yes - but saints also look after their own interests. In this case, by partnering with Yahoo!, they have essentially made sure that Microsoft cannot attempt a take over of the online search and advertising space.

Let me explain: Were Microsoft to offer Yahoo! a fantastic deal (say $50 a share), and should it be finalized, you would still have Microsoft essentially dependent on Google for a part of its online revenues, which is what Google has wanted all along. Besides Yahoo!, Microsoft has no other option but to let go of the online space or try to (in vain in my opinion) compete with both Yahoo! and Google on their own.

You see, Microsoft has, all these years, remained smug in the knowledge that it is the platform provider and everyone else will be dependent on it, thus ensuring its perpetuity. Come Google, and the offline platform is becoming more irrelevant by the minute, and this has struck fear in and shakes the very core of Microsoft’s philosophy and being.

You can rest assured, they will fight tooth and nail to make sure the Y-G deal does not crystallize - but in my opinion - they will falter and they will fail.

Moral of the story - DON’T BE EVIL!

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