Hairs on end!

Ok, so it might be considered over the top to be horrified by something in the buissniss world, but hey, I care there to. The latest is this supposed Microsoft/Yahoo! buyout. Analysts seems to think it a good idea, I don't. First of all the respective company cultures are vastly different, and secondly: they will lose a lot of their appeal if they become a Microsoft subsidiary. I for one will deffinatley take my usage of Yahoo! services to a minimum if this comes through. No more Yahoo! Messenger, no more Flickr, no more anything like that. I won't give-up my e-mail, because I like it for sentimental reasons, I've had it since 1997! So ok, Microsoft do make some ok products, like Office, but I still prefere Nisus Writer Pro/Express, Apple Pages or even RedeX Mellel. Especially now SUN is in the game for a proper OpenOffice.org for Mac! And no one I know actualy likes Windows Live!, frankly most people seems to agree that it sucks. And the MSN homepage, please!

I say, hang in there Yahoo!, you can do SO much better than Microsoft if you need a partner, which I don't think you need. You need to start looking at doing crazy things! That's what Google and Apple are doing, and they are both doing great!

The path is rocky, tread with care,

/ | \ Taran MacDuir