Ah, our dear friend Steve Balmer is making headlines again. While Bill gates was a rather demure and articulate CEO for Microsoft, Balmer has been more outspoken. When not out dancing like a polar bear with it’s testicles on fire, he is now making several manners of threats to the folks at Yahoo.
It is true that Microsoft is not in the habit of being resisted by those it wants to take over and they ,must feel surprised if not insulted that the good folks at Yahoo (who returned an unexpectantly better result in the last quarter) would not want to join the Borg.
Let’s face it, there are two major reasons that Microsoft wants Yahoo.
1) They have not been able to make inroads into the search game against Google woth their own product and Yahoo gives them some more leverage there. It alos provieds them with lots of rich content on which to sell advertising (which is the backbone of Google’s business and waht allows them to experiemtn in ways Microsoft never did)
2) It really is time that Microsoft changed it’s name. Afterall, when was the last time you refered to your PC, Laoptop, Notebook or phone as a “Micro computer”. Their name has become more of a liability than an asset.
Unfortunately, Borg has been copyrighted, so they can;t take that. And Balmer, in all his arrogance, seems to be doing his best to bring greater transparency to the classic woo and screw process that Microsoft has often been critiqued for. So for probably “effing” up the deal (or at least losing the peace afterward), we’d like to give Mr., Balmer today’s Chumpzilla award. a shame Steve. Given the way you dance, you would have made a great Chief Yahoo.
The Chumpzilla Award 