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...Yahoo? Is that thing still going on? Go ahead and scream. That's the point of a siege, isn't it? The unbearable tedium - mixed with the horror of what might unfold - is precisely what the invading army inflicts. We think of a siege as an active event, of trebuchets pitching 700-lb. boulders and plague-infested goat carcasses into a walled city. But the word is derived from the Latin sedere, which means "to sit." And that's precisely what Microsoft has been doing: sitting on Yahoo. By siege standards, six months is nothing. The Mongol siege of Xiangyang...
...Steve Ballmer isn't going to be confused with a patient man like Kublai Khan. Ballmer launched The Siege of Yahoo on February 1 by throwing a brick through Yahoo's window with a shouted demand: Sell now! At $31 a share! Microsoft was pitching the black tent...
...true that Microsoft and Yahoo had, for the past three years, discussed a "friendly" merger. But that was only to negotiate the terms of surrender. Microsoft had already determined that it must stop Google at all costs, and that Yahoo was the key. Microsoft's operating system monopoly was once a mighty platform that made the company and its partners rich as kings. It made Bill Gates even richer. Then the platform shifted to the Web, owned by no one, but benefiting Google and its magic search engine above all others. Search, after all, is a key to advertising, which...
...Yahoo resisted Microsoft's tender. So Ballmer went straight for the black tent. Why pretend that anyone would be spared...
...watch the protracted spectacle of a company under siege, with its daily skirmishes and who's up/who's down scoreboard. Carl Icahn, the perpetual barbarian at the gate, launched a proxy fight. Can he and the shareholders vanquish Yahoo's board, opening the doors to the Microsoft hordes? We'll see August...