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Ballmer Talks XP Extension, Walking Away from Yahoo!

Posted by Spy April 26, 2008 1:08 PM with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Windows XP

While in Europe this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered up two tantalizing tidbits about some of the more controversial issues surrounding the company. He said that Microsoft could "wake up" if enough people complain about the June 2008 expiration of Windows XP sales and noted that he would walk away from his proposed merger with Yahoo! if the deal didn't make sense.

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drjonz said:

Steve Balmer asked a crowd last week how many people used Live Search and maybe 5-10% of the crowd raised their hands. Then he asked how many used Google as their default. The rest raised their hands. Then he asked how many used Yahoo and not a single hand in 2000 people went up. He made a joke about the price of Yahoo stock, but I think it struck him right at that moment that he might want to reconsider the Yahoo deal.

April 26, 2008 11:24 PM

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