Takover on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/takover/ Recent content in Takover on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Sun, 04 May 2008 00:17:44 +0000 Microsoft Walks Away from Hostile Takeover of Yahoo! https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2008/05/03/microsoft-walks-away-from-hostile-takeover-of-yahoo/ Sun, 04 May 2008 00:17:44 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2008/05/03/microsoft-walks-away-from-hostile-takeover-of-yahoo/ <p>If <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/03/breaking-microsoft-walks/">this story</a> is accurate, then Micro$oft has withdrawn their offer to buy Yahoo!  This is great news because I love the guys at Yahoo and the programs they run, such as Flickr and delicious and I love the fact that they use FreeBSD for their servers.  You can bet that Microsoft wouldn&rsquo;t have been having any of that and would have made them switch to the inferior Microsoft IIS.  Plus, they probably would have wrecked my Flickr!</p>

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