Microsoft says “Boo” to Yahoo

February 11th, 2008

Microsoft responded today to Yahoo’s non-answer with a snarky reply that probably has all the remaining Yahoo developers sending their resumes to Google and Facebook.
The breathtaking Microsoft answer, which sounds personally handcrafted by Steve Balmer:
“It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal to combine our companies. Based on conversations with [...]

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Yahoo’s OpenID is a one-way street

January 17th, 2008

Yahoo’s decision to become an OpenID provider is a one-way street, and will serve mainly to enhance Yahoo’s knowledge of its members’ browsing habits away from Yahoo’s many properties.
While Yahoo’s OpenID implementation will add its 250 million registered usernames to the pool of OpenID users, greatly boosting the credibility of the data portability movement.
But the [...]

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