Angst

My most recent post mentioned that Yahoo! was giving one thousand workers the heave in a bid to maximize profits. They aren’t losing money — they just aren’t making as much of it as they want. What a pity — tsk tsk!

Turns out that my rant may have caught the attention of some folks in Redmond, WA who decided to offer the internet giant $44.6 billion for their business. Yes, Bill Gates and company are avid The Article Writer readers and have decided to step in and allow Microsoft to snag Yahoo! thanks to me.

I want a referral fee!

Sure, let me dream or have my fifteen seconds of delirium — but the fact remains this: Microsoft wants the Big Y!

I’m not too surprised to see this offer come forth, though I would have preferred to have learned that it is was the other way around: the Big Y! buying the Big M. Somehow, a internet juggernaut controlled by the same people who brought to us Windows VISTA, Internet Explorer and MS Outlook doesn’t tickle my fancy. Rather, it makes me think that this whole internet thing will soon be run by a small group of corporate titans who care not for the little guy.

My utopian dreaming aside, the earlier days of the modern internet era were kind of fun, but since Google intervened everything is getting, well, organized that I am envisioning some sort of toll road appearing down the line. In order to continue using these wonderful innovations which are now currently free (for the most part), we’ll be expected to pony up some cash.

Will Yahoo! accept Microsoft’s offer? By every indication they’ll give it their full consideration. My best guess is that the answer to this question will be yes.