Microsoft Hijack of Yahoo
This abusive relationship lasted a couple of years and Yahoo! kept rejecting Microsoft. Microsoft resorted to a proxy battle against Yahoo!, drove away staff, put its own staff inside, used AstroTurf techniques to block a Yahoo! deal with Google, and eventually got Yahoo! on the cheap, after Yahoo! had appointed a former Microsoft partner to be CEO, along with Microsoft proxies like Carl Icahn who left as soon as the deal was complete. Here are some of the posts about it.
Microsoft, Yahoo and Control of Information
Links 1/02/2008: Microsoft+Yahoo, Linux, Ogg, Miro, and Open-source
Would Microsoft ‘Pull a Hula’ on Zimbra?
Meet Microsoft: World’s Chief Acquisitions Policeman
Update on the Microsoft/Yahoo Situation: Google-Yahoo Alliance?
About That Yahoo Deal/Bid and Its Impact
Links 06/02/2008: Many GNU/Linux Releases, Yahoo Gets More Bids
Links 07/02/2008: Truecrypt 5 Released, More Linux Phones Coming, Microsoft-Yahoo Going Kaput?
Links 10/02/2008: Yahoo to Reject Microsoft Offer; Linux LCA; SCALE Starts
Links 11/02/2008: Linux 2.6.25 RC1, Conferences Kick Off, Microsoft Kicked Out (by Yahoo!)
Links 11/02/2008: Yahoo Bullied; Red Hat, Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org Take Market Share Chunk
Acquire to Exploit, Acquire to Eliminate
Links 12/01/2008: GNU/Linux Spreads; Microsoft Could Resort to Extortion in Yahoo! Case
Links 14/02/2008: Linux Excursions, Yahoo Seen Walking Away from Microsoft
Did Microsoft Hijack XenSource Like It Tries to Hijack Yahoo?
What if Microsoft Owned Yahoo (and the US Government Establishments’ IT)?
Microsoft Must Be Absolutely Terrified
As Yahoo Proxy War Looms, VMWare and Nokia Return to One’s Mind
Possibly Another Microsoft Antitrust Over Abuse of Yahoo, Market; Then Comes Dark (Silver) Light
Links 28/02/2008: Yahoo Still Bullied, Google Comes Around; Heaps of GNU/Linux-related Good News
References Roundup: Microsoft’s Financial Situation
Links 07/03/2008: New GNU/Linux Laptops and Tablets, Microsoft Might Make All-cash Offer to Yahoo (i.e. Deeper Debt)
Microsoft Fires Up Proxy War Against Yahoo as Debt Looms Over
Links 10/04/2008: New GNOME, UNESCO Promotes Free Software, Yahoo Chooses Escape Route (Google, Java, AOL, Investors)
Microsoft Fight Against Yahoo Board Gets Uglier
Links 25/04/2008: Windows Sales Down 24%, Yahoo Bid Wobbly
Links 30/04/2008: KDE 4.1 Reaches Alpha, Microsoft Proxy Fight Against Yahoo Foreseen
Links 16/05/2008: Red Hat Upgrade, Microsoft May Be Behind Yahoo Proxy War
Microsoft’s Proxy Fight May Have Begun Weeks Ago, Quietly
Microsoft: How Will the Internet Have it Remembered?
What Lies Inside…
Don’t Play Politics and Diplomacy with Microsoft
LawMedia Group May be Another Confirmed Microsoft AstroTurfing Agency
Lesson in Attacks by Proxy: Microsoft Versus Google
Eye on Microsoft: Windows Shatter, Yahoo Recommends Firefox 3
Microsoft Against Apple and Google, By Proxy?
Microsoft Executives Land Inside Microsoft Rivals
Microsoft Executives Penetrate Corel, Yahoo; Is Novell Next?
Google’s Get the Facts Website
Who’s Bugging Google and Apple? (Updatedx2)
Internal, Financial, Prospective Problems at Microsoft
King of Hypocrisy(ahoo!)
Microsoft’s Latest Ugly Tactics Against Google, Yahoo, and VMware
Microsoft is Doing it Again… to Yahoo and Google
Microsoft: 800 lb. Guerrilla
Is Yahoo Becoming Microsoft from the Inside?
G^H^H… Boo-Hoo!
Eye on Microsoft: Windows Under Attack from Critics, Cyber Criminals; Yahoo! Besieged by Microsoft
Video: Bloomberg on Yahoo/Google/Microsoft
Associated Press Double Messages
Microsoft’s Sleight of Hands
The Microsoft-Influenced US Regulators Wrong on Yahoo!
Microsoft Hijacked Yahoo! from the Inside (Updated)
As Search Bribery Fails, Microsoft Turns to More Agitation and Proxy-Fighting
Microsoft Mole Watch: Yahoo, Amazon, Costco
No Hope for Microsoft’s On-line Ambitions
Yahoo’s IP Director — and Patent Troll Fighter — Quits? (Confirmed)
How Would GNU/Linux Users Be Affected if Yahoo/Microsoft Went Through?
Report: Microsoft Proxy Fight Against Yahoo! Still on
Yahoo: The Biggest Threat Comes from the Inside
Quick Mention: Yahoo and Microsoft in Contact Again
Microsoft and Politics (Against Google)
More Microsoft Cronies in United States Government, Other Companies
Newly-Appointed Yahoo Puppet: Let Microsoft Have Us
Microsoft: The Cronies, the Pressure, and Staff Reductions
Quick Mentions: Xenocode and Microsoft, Yahoo and Microsoft, F/OSS Slandered by Microsoft Ecosystem
Yahoo CFO Invites Microsoft, Then Abandons Ship
Bully on the Internet
Were Yahoo and Lenovo Poisoned from the Inside?
Microsoft Loses to Google, Microsoft’s Anti-Google Lobby Unable to Change Laws Anymore
Microsoft’s Very Own “Death Spiral” (on the Web)
Latest Signs That Microsoft Loses the Fight for the Web
Microsoft is Still Attacking Google via Publishers
Carol and Carl (Bartz and Icahn) Subscribe for the Assault on Google
Microsoft’s Online Business is Crumbling Even Further
Confirmed: Microsoft Tries to Turn Regulators Against Google (Again)
New Speculations About Microsoft Buying Citrix or Grabbing Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! and Microsoft Still Search for a Future!
Microsoft’s Anti-Google Whisper Campaign
Microsoft Pays More People to Attack Google as Microsoft’s Search Queries Fall Another 14 Percent in May
Bing Executive Quits Microsoft, But Microsoft Colony is Built at eBay
How History Gets Warped — Not Forgotten — to Conceal Microsoft Violations
Guess Who Inside Yahoo! Supports a Microsoft Deal? Microsoft’s Correspondent, Icahn
Microsoft’s Proxy Fight Against Yahoo! Turns it to Puppet State
More Linux and Open Source Infiltrations from Microsoft
The Ugly Reality of the Yahoo-Microsoft Deal
Did Microsoft Also Poison Yahoo’s Free Software?
Yahoo! Dives Right into Microsoft’s Anti-Google Agenda!
Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal Not a Done Deal, But Microsoft Proceeds to Other Deals as Search Ambitions Fail
Antitrust Barriers to Microsoft’s Anti-Google; Google Takes Matters into Own Hands
Microsoft Insider/Partner Warns All That Microsoft “Destroys” Partners
More Losses and Antitrust Barriers for Microsoft Online
Another Front Group with Microsoft Employees Joins Coalition Against Google
Yahoo!-Microsoft Now Scrutinised by US Regulators Too
Comes Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Destroy Borland (Like It Did Yahoo!)
More Antitrust Pressure for Yahoo!-Microsoft, Google Blocked by MSDOJ
Microsoft’s Google Chase Gets Harder
Microsoft, Google, and the Impact on Free Software Revisited
Google Continues Eating Microsoft’s Lunch
Microsoft/Icahn’s Coup Against Yahoo! and Yang is Done
No Yahoo! for Microsoft, Carl Icahn Sued by Goldman Sachs
Microsoft, Ask, and the AstroTurf Against Yahoo! Remembered
Google’s (Staff) Index Poisoned by Microsoft
De Facto Microsoft Press Already Rewrites the Story of Microsoft’s Destruction of Yahoo!, Other Stories
How Microsoft Breaks the Internet – Latest Examples
Former Microsoft Partner/Ally Gives Microsoft Competitor (Zimbra) to Former Microsoft Employees
Microsoft Recruits Partners to Fight Against Google
Ubuntu GNU/Linux 10.04 Search Page Links to Microsoft Datacentres
Icahn Takes Next Step in Microsoft’s Proxy Battle, IE8 Demotes Google
Microsoft Takes Over Yahoo! Search to Increase Brainwash of the Public
How Microsoft Quietly Takes Over Yahoo! Search, in Coup D’état Fashion
More of Microsoft Sought to Manage Yahoo! (Coup D’état)
As Google Eats Microsoft’s Cash Cow Ballmer Finds New Attack Dogs in Yahoo!
Microsoft-Dominated Yahoo! Deletes the Linux/Open Source Section
Yahoo! Search Personnel Fired, Microsoft’s Bong (sic) Sued for Patent Violations
Yahoo as Microsoft’s New Home, Microsoft New Zealand Boss Too is Leaving
First It Was Yahoo! and Now It’s AOL
Microsoft Can’t Afford to Buy Search Market Share Anymore, Kills What’s Left of Yahoo!
AstroTurfer Against Google Wants to Buy Google Real Estate, Old Anti-Google AstroTurfers (Hired by Microsoft) Recalled
How Microsoft Taking Over Yahoo! (Proxy Fight/Entryism) Harms the Industry, Not Just Yahoo!
Microsoft Entryism Continues at Yahoo! as More Microsoft Managers Occupy the Shaken Ship
Microsoft Has Killed Yahoo! for Its Userbase
Yahoo ‘Search’ is Still a Microsoft Front End, Its Real Search Engine Destroyed by Microsoft Entryism
Criminal Behaviour at Microsoft Exploits Preying on Yahoo!
Yahoo’s Current CEO (Mayer, Formerly of Google) is Trying to End Yahoo! Status as Microsoft Proxy
Who Kills Yahoo? It's Microsoft, Not Yahoo!
Finishing Icahn's and Ballmer's Job: Microsoft Wants to Kill Yahoo! and Exterminate GNU/Linux in Datacentres
Yahoo’s Patent Portfolio Might Soon Be ‘Monetised’ by Passage to Trolls at the Rate of at Least $100,000 Per Patent
The Death of Software Patents and Microsoft's Coup Against Yahoo! Made the Company Worthless