Im Westen Nichts Neues
With apologies to the ghost of Erich Maria Remarque, who wrote the powerful anti-war novel with the above title (translated in English as “All Quiet on the Western Front”).
The deadline for Steve Ballmer’s ultimatum to Yahoo to surrender by Saturday or else has come and gone. So far silence reigns, nothing from Redmond and nothing from Sunnyvale. Steve Hansell, writing in the New York Times, says this is just the calm before Ballmer rolls out the next attack. He analyzes why Ballmer can’t give up on buying Yahoo:
Why is Microsoft taking it sweet time showing its next move in the battle for Yahoo? I suspect it is simply arranging the forces for its next attack.
Why? Because I don’t think Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer could accept giving up—that would mean Microsoft conceding that it simply could not be a leader in the leading form of consumer technology, Internet-based services.
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