{"id":1353,"date":"2008-02-04T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/04\/is-microsofts-bit-for-yahoo-a\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T21:00:13","slug":"is-microsofts-bit-for-yahoo-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/is-microsofts-bit-for-yahoo-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Microsoft&#8217;s Bid for Yahoo A Sign of Failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/02\/technology\/02soft.html?_r=1&#038;hp&#038;oref=slogin\">this<\/a> piece in the New York Times.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft&#8217;s $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, pushed by Mr. Ballmer, was hostile. And during a conference call Friday with analysts and in a subsequent interview, he never once uttered the word &#8220;Google,&#8221; referring to the Internet search giant that has humbled Microsoft only as &#8220;the leader&#8221; in the online world.Mr. Ballmer, 51, is a famously fierce competitor. To him, failure is never an option. &#8220;If we don&#8217;t get it right at first, we&#8217;ll just keep coming and coming and coming and coming,&#8221; he said in an earlier interview.Microsoft&#8217;s bid for Yahoo is thus a tacit, and difficult, admission that the company did not get its online business right. The bid also represents a sharp departure from Microsoft&#8217;s well-thumbed playbook of building new businesses on its own. In the past, when Microsoft moved beyond its stronghold in desktop computer software &#8212; and into areas like video games and data-center software &#8212; it has done so mainly with in-house investment, patience and tenacity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly, according to this piece in the New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-lP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}