Microsoft Corp. was recently rejected on the bid of buying out Yahoo Inc., the Yahoo reps considering the bid too stumpy. During a Beijing conference in March 2008, the Google C.E.O., Eric Schmidt stated, concerning the intentions of Microsoft of acquiring Yahoo, that this may affect the entire functioning of the Internet in a negative way.
44.6 billion dollars is a lot of money, unthinkable for the majority of the regular people. But not for the yahoo Inc. board. This sum was also the bid Microsoft offered to get hold of Yahoo, bid made in February this year. However, the Yahoo reps did not consider the offer as being a valid one, saying it was too low. As a result, Yahoo is not Microsoft’s possession, yet. Will Microsoft come up with new figures to force Yahoo into their hands? That’s still to be seen, the basic idea is that this intention of buying out Yahoo has created a lot of reactions around it, the main reactionary being Google and its Chief Executive Officer.
A news conference involving Google’s C.E.O., held in Beijing on 17 March 2008 has Eric Schmidt say that he is uneasy about Yahoo being a Microsoft property, claiming that it will have a negative influence on the Internet. The main concerns of the Chief Executive Officer of Google are about the straightforwardness the Internet would have after Yahoo being owned by Microsoft, this adjective being the best that describes the situation of this World Wide Web so far, and this making it so popular and so helpful in so many ways for everyone.
Microsoft is also known to have been manipulating well the monopoly of the Windows operating system over any other competitors in the rest of the world, and who knows what might happen with the Internet once Microsoft gets its hands on Yahoo as well. Steve Ballmer, the C.E.O. of Microsoft is strongly determined to win the market share over Google by any means possible, planning to do so with tools such as online advertising and web searching.
However, a new bid to buy Yahoo out was not put forward yet, but this still remains a possibility and a threat in some people’s opinion. So, will we see more Microsoft instead of Yahoo or Google in the future whenever we access the World Wide Web? Will this possible Microsoft power influence in any way the Internet and its straightforwardness?
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