02.04.08
About That Yahoo Deal/Bid and Its Impact
Published in Datamation.
Be sure to also see this new article (not mine): Microsoft is ready to oust Yahoo! board to achieve swift takeover
Scandalous.
Pages that cross-reference this one
Listed from October 23rd 2007 onwards, pingbacks and trackbacks (external) are omitted- Silverblight [sic] Boosters on Microsoft's Payroll
- Microsoft Fires Up Proxy War Against Yahoo as Debt Looms Over
- Plan B: Acquire to Extinguish Life's Greatest Projects
- Microsoft Pretends to Obey Web Standards While Novell+Microsoft Phase Web Standards Out
- Possibly Another Microsoft Antitrust Over Abuse of Yahoo, Market; Then Comes Dark (Silver) Light
- Recent blog reactions
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.