What's interesting to me is what this consolidation will mean to the industry as a whole.
We would have lost the competition of the Search services Yahoo vs Microsoft Live Search vs Google. Even if yahoo and microsoft pretend to compete, the good technologies from either of them will be cross utilised, until I think they find a way to integrate or assimilate one into the other. Yahoo Widgets was an alternative to Microsoft's Widgets in Vista. Will that remain the case, or will this also become assimilated? Will these find their way as bonus gadgets for Ultimate and therefore normal users will be denied future 'free' releases? Will Microsoft allow the two properties to continue seperate paths, or will they seek to integrate? For example will Y ahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger become a single service? And if they seek to integrate, will this be to the detriment of both properties during that period before things stabilise (assuming they would)? Not getting into the possibility of job losses which invariably follow such mergers or purchases. On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are probably a LOT of apps on Yahoo's various properties that > Microsoft could build in Silverlight. > > Though I'm not personally a yahoo user, except for the occasional > foray into Yahoo Finance, anything that gives microsoft more power to > force silverlight onto people bothers me. > > -- > Rick Root > New Brian Vander Ark Album, songs in the music player and cool behind > the scenes video at www.myspace.com/brianvanderark > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:252941 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
