Putting Microsoft’s Bid For Yahoo In Perspective
After hearing that Microsoft was walking away from its offer to buy Yahoo, I got to thinking what else they could buy with that kind of mony. Here are some ideas.
For $45 Billion Microsoft could buy. . .
327 F-22 Raptors (instantly have the world's 9th largest Air Force)
Everyone in California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois an iPhone
Every other web-related company created in the past 5 years
Wyoming
8 Aircraft carriers (the US only has 11)
Pay for the Iraq war for one football season (playoffs not included)
Hire every hooker in Las Vegas, at $200 per hour, to service every single person living in California . . . twice
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That last would almost make me want to move back to California!
Microsoft with an Air force… Hum, brings a whole new meaning to the term “Hostile Tack Over”
Isn’t it Larry Ellison who has talked about using his fighter plane against Microsoft?
I am glad to see Microsoft refuse to pay Google’s price. Microsfot got this one right.
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The trick was to cut one of the Apple // cooling fans from System Saver to fit on the right side of the computer where the power supply was. This kept the internal temp down and the Aluminum case cool. The 5MB hard drive was great, no one else had factory hard drives. The color monitors looked great too.
I had the pleasure of meeting the Dr. He had great ideas, just to many marketing folks directing the operation is probably valid. Dr did dump the bit slicing O/S that was originally running on the Apple /// , to complex and to slow.