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Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft -- despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses -- to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between them, the two companies operate the two most heavily trafficked portals on the Internet. Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions -- and consumers deserve satisfying answers.
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annestMicrosoft's hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
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Paolo SordiThe underlying principles of the Internet.
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05 Feb 08
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04 Feb 08
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Daniel CalladineCould Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? - via Erica Schmidt
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Kevin De MulderI wonder what the message here is? You can buy stuff, as long as they are small? What is Google pointing at that they aren't doing themselves? Weird statement...
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William WallaceMicrosoft's hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
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Leo LaporteCould the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft -- despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses -- to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming sha
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03 Feb 08
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It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
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Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies -- and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets.
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Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft -- despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses -- to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?
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We take Internet openness, choice and innovation seriously. They are the core of our culture.
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Ognian MladenovThe openness of the Internet is what made Google -- and Yahoo! -- possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It's what makes the Internet such an excitin
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Daniel AndrlikOK sure, it's troubling what Microsoft could do to Yahoo's openness and the quality of their products. Microsoft has got a rep for acquiring and then ruining properties. But come on, Google, are you really that worried?
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Romana ChallansWell! Google responds to Microsoft's bid for Yahoo - and they are warning us all to remember Microsoft's previous monopolistic and other questionable (and sometimes found to be illegal) practices...
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