Microsoft has the $$$, Why not buy EA and Sqaure ENIX and End the War

[alephnull]

justinian said:

Kantor said:
Because:

1) That would cost too much money for too little gain.

2) As RageBot said, 51% of the shareholders need to be willing to sell. If they're willing to sell, stock price is probably going down. If stock prices are going down, you don't want to buy the company.

3) Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that even legal? Wouldn't it be classified as anti-competitive? I mean, if Microsoft isn't even allowed to only include their own BROWSER in THEIR operating system...

Point 3. Agreed.

Even if MS had got yahoo the general thinking is that the EU would have considered it anti-competitive and block it in euroupe.

Maybe you are thinking of Google's aquisition of Yahoo!, which was blocked on anti-competitive grounds. MS basically de-facto aquired Yahoo! under their 10-year search deal.