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A grave for Yahoo?
According to Google, in this way Microsoft wants to establish no less than illegal control over the Internet. If all computers running the Windows operating system automatically access Microsoft's e-mail, web browsing and instant messaging services (and this will become possible after the purchase of Yahoo!), this, according to Google representatives, will violate the core principles of the Web - openness and innovation. Microsoft representatives reasonably state in response that one of the goals of the deal is effective competition with Google services; there can be no talk of any Internet monopoly, and Google’s demarche is caused by fears for its market share of online services.
Yahoo!, which showed no ability to grow in 2007, is benefiting from this development. Yesterday, Reuters, citing someone close to Yahoo! the source said that the company considers itself undervalued and may enter into a strategic alliance with Google. Confirmation of these rumors may force Microsoft to increase the offer price. Representatives from Yahoo! Inc. have not yet commented on either a possible alliance with Google or the likelihood of a deal with Microsoft.
Google's attempt to oppose the deal may be intended only to complicate Microsoft's life, but not to derail the sale of Yahoo! in fact. The well-known American IT expert Grigory Gromov in his blog makes a conclusion, the correctness of which will not be disputed by anyone who knows the history of previous acquisitions and innovative initiatives of the “software giant”: “If the deal to acquire Yahoo! does take place, this will be a serious guarantee for Google that on the site of the former complex of a wide variety of search-related businesses now known to the world under the common Yahoo brand, another “mass grave” of innovations will arise, crushed by the Big Gorilla named Microsoft. In other words, Mr. Gromov continues, with the above-mentioned deal, if it takes place, Microsoft, in fact, will finally “clear the clearing” for Google’s complete monopoly on the entire web e-commerce space. The historically established culture of Microsoft Corporation itself turns out to be the most reliable guarantee for Google that nothing - from the most varied kinds of e-commerce initiatives that were still smoldering in the bowels of Yahoo - will never see the light of day again (in in a form that is at least somewhat competitive for Google).”