Microsoft Will Take Steps To Block The Google-Yahoo Japan Partnership en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:07:25 -0500 Jay Yarow Will Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:52:48 -0400 It's not the article that's kind of pointless. This is something that is happening; j ust because it is OBVIOUSLY GOING TO HAPPEN NO MATTER WHAT does not make it any less relevant as reported news, simply less interesting - but there's nothing in there which is 'pointless'. OtherWay Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:56:51 -0400 People call you by name. Even if you haven't been "miked" even once. Yahoo japan owns trademark there, and uses domain named yahoo. What else you want? Chem Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:36:17 -0400 So we should believe you and not the lawyer quoted above? Ok keep drinking the Jesus juice Mikey. modelportfolio2003 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:13:28 -0400 A complete longshot and waste of time and legal fees by Microsoft. If Microsoft's lawyers say they have a chance in hell, they are successfully milking Microsoft and its shareholders for more fees. What a surprise! Microsoft should have simply paid up big time to Yahoo! Japan to even stand a chance of consideration and since they presumably did not, they are trying to run around and whine. Microsoft just not in the same league as Google search on any form factor---desktop, mobile, etc. Yahoo and Microsoft know it. Anyway, deal is financially more lucrative to Yahoo Inc (35% shareholder) and Softbank (40% shareholder) than a deal with Bing in Japan. That is really the bottom line. Japanese FTC has concluded deal is ok and not anti-competitive. Losing face in Japan would be a big deal for Japan FTC as the author of this article should know. Therefore, there is zero chance of Microsoft prevailing. All they can do is try to make noise and delay the deal while the FTC goes through the motions and takes a few more weeks to repeat what they have already concluded. I guess Ballmer likes raising his voice some more and yelling into empty space. mirror Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:38:43 -0400 I am sure Google would pull the same thing on MSFT if they were on the other end of the table. So this article is kind of pointless........ miked Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:30:39 -0400 Yahoo and Yahoo Japan are not the same company -- you allude to this, but then continue referring to Yahoo Japan as simply Yahoo throughout the article. STORYBURN Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:35:52 -0400 Microsoft keeps showing its Old School stripes each and every day