Did Microsoft dodge a bullet?

[Kerotan]

pbroy said:
Yahoo is crap and Bing is crap. Putting those two together wouldn't make them any less crap. If anything, they would be more crappier. 🤔

They would have been written off like the Nokia phone division eventually, if that deal went through.

So basically they dodged a mini nuke.  A $40BN write off would be nasty.  BTW is it still called bing? I completely forgot about that.  

LivingMetal said:

Kerotan said:

I see they offered close to $50 BILLION a few years ago to buy yahoo.  But their offer was turned down. Yahoo was recently sold for almost $5 BILLION.  

 

So I ask,  if Microsoft bought them for $50BN would yahoo's value have dramatically dropped and it would have been a terrible deal,  or would Microsoft have kept yahoo as a top player in the game?

 

Did Microsoft unintentionally dodge a bullet? 

It's not so much Microsoft dodged a bullet, the tech world and its users dodged a bullet.  Let's put it like this: Hotmail was up and coming.  Microsoft bought out Hotmail.  Where's Hotmail now?  See my point, and I think Yahoo saw that as well.

Hotmail is useful.  I use my Gmail for all the important stuff and a Hotmail for all the potential spammy stuff.

Stefan.De.Machtige said:
When a female CEO comes to power, you know the company is very likely going down. It's nice to see she was able to sell it too a big stong man, eh, company.

Haha that's actually funny.  I wonder if it actually makes a difference!