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Finishing Icahn's and Ballmer's Job: Microsoft Wants to Kill Yahoo! and Exterminate GNU/Linux in Datacentres

Microsoft uses its money to interfere with and/or take over the competition

“Linux infestations are being uncovered in many of our large accounts as part of the escalation engagements.”

--Microsoft Confidential



"I'm going to f---ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f---ing kill Google."

--Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO



Summary: Microsoft's war on GNU/Linux and against Google is still alive and well, and Microsoft uses its money (what's left of it) in an effort to get its way and basically undermine (or E.E.E.) the competition

According to this second-hand report from Sam Dean about Microsoft's DCOS buddies, "Microsoft has been rumored to have had its eyes on owning the company" (company behind DCOS, which is proprietary). 8 months ago we wrote about the real reason Microsoft veterans were investing in Mesosphere.



"8 months ago we wrote about the real reason Microsoft veterans were investing in Mesosphere."What we basically deal with here is another Xamarin, again funded by people from Microsoft, only to be the subject of Microsoft acquisition (or attempted acquisition) later on. Microsoft actually did try to take over DCOS and make it its anti-GNU/Linux proxy. It's half way there now because there are financial strings now. Dean cites a Microsoft booster (Matt Weinberger) as saying that "Microsoft is investing millions in a $1 billion startup that rejected its acquisition offer" (the headline).

To quote Weinberger: "Last year, reports emerged that Microsoft tried to buy Mesosphere, a hot cloud computing startup, for $150 million, only to get shut down."

"What we basically deal with here is another Xamarin, again funded by people from Microsoft, only to be the subject of Microsoft acquisition (or attempted acquisition) later on."So that's a fact. At Mesosphere they 'just' took Microsoft money and hence strings, so it's clear whose agenda will be served. EEE against GNU/Linux must be noted here. To quote further: "Mesosphere is announcing a new $73.5 million "strategic" investment, led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and with Microsoft listed as a "significant participant.""

It's time to treat Mesosphere as a Microsoft proxy; little less, only more.

In related news, Microsoft is killing Yahoo again. Yahoo is not totally dead yet; it's now run by a lady from Google, so the company apparently needs to die or be hijacked again by Microsoft. Microsoft Peter (Peter Bright) and Swisher make it abundantly clear that Microsoft is still a predator, not a real company. Based on Microsoft Peter's article: "After Microsoft's failed bid to buy Yahoo, the two companies signed agreements that would see Microsoft providing both search technology and advertising to Yahoo. While the terms of this deal have changed, with Redmond losing its exclusive arrangement last year, Yahoo nonetheless remains an important partner. Bing's market share continues to grow each quarter, and Yahoo's use of Bing search results is a key part of this success. [note: that's a Microsoft lie/revisionism from Peter Bright]

"It's time to treat Mesosphere as a Microsoft proxy; little less, only more.""Redmond is keen to protect this important deal. Offering a private equity firm a billion or two in cheap financing would enable the company to preserve this partnership, while being substantially cheaper than buying the company itself. In spite of its previous interest, sources within Microsoft tell Swisher that it has no interest in buying Yahoo this time around. Companies that are interested are believed to include AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, along with a number of private equity firms."

The New York Times, having come up with an eye-catching headline (unlike the spin from Microsoft Peter), says the "Entire Yahoo Board Would Be Ousted". This sounds like the same thing which Microsoft did with Icahn almost 8 years ago.

"This sounds like the same thing which Microsoft did with Icahn almost 8 years ago."The spin from Microsoft Peter says "Microsoft said to be wanting to help out Yahoo buyers with its own cash"; iophk responded with "if you twist the word 'help' enough."

Another reader of ours laughed and wrote in IRC "mafia "help"" (hey, maybe they can send in Icahn again!).

Raiders, proxies, corporate coups -- a Microsoft specialty. Maybe they'll actually become a technology and software company one day. We covered in great detail what Microsoft had done to Yahoo! in the past in order to convert it from a third (or second) contender in search engines into just another 'department' of Microsoft. Microsoft did the same thing to Cyanogen (now a Trojan horse against Android/Google), Nokia, and it also 'helped' Novell (only to see the company dying within a few years, as expected, leaving the patents to Microsoft).

"...Microsoft is unmistakably still going after Yahoo after killing the vast majority of it."Looking at another report about this, titled "Microsoft Tells Possible Yahoo Buyers It Would Consider Backing Bids With Big Bucks", Microsoft is unmistakably still going after Yahoo after killing the vast majority of it.

It "looks like Yahoo is selling out," said Mark in our IRC channels earlier today, adding that "they are looking to sell their core business; I'd say they are on the way out in any case; they lost what... 4 billion dollars last year?"

“Microsoft is the touch of death to almost everything...”
      --Mark, #techrights
This is like classic Microsoft revisionism, however, e.g. for one to claim Yahoo was all along down and still going down (or that Microsoft tried to save them and help them). They were doing reasonably well before 2008 (like Nokia or Novell) and they do extremely poorly now; Microsoft's intention has a lot to do with it. That's like saying Novell failed in spite of Microsoft or that Microsoft tried to rescue Novell.

XRevan86 notes that "moving to Bing for Yahoo! was a total disaster." It was indeed; it was a one-way relationship that destroyed the very core of Yahoo! and turned it into a vassal of Microsoft. There was no way back after that. The company was in a freefall.

"Microsoft is the touch of death to almost everything," Mark concluded.

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