If Yahoo accepts Microsoft's offer to buy it, will you close your Yahoo account?

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If Yahoo accepts Microsoft's offer to buy it, will you close your Yahoo account?microsoft maps

no as see no reason why i should

If Yahoo accepts Microsoft's offer to buy it, will you close your Yahoo account?windows registry internet explorer

only if micro wants to start doing weird things to it. i just don't know where i would go after that. i've been with yahoo for 15 yrs.
no, it wont reallly have an affect on me.
You probably won't notice...they will keep Yahoo, as the logo.
No way! Let Microsoft spread! They are a good corporation
I think I'll not. Microsoft has a flair for selling below par products like the Internet Explorer.
NO
as long as we don't have to pay, that's fine.
Iam not sure,I don't think I would but it would be very different I mean it would no longer be 'Yahoo' answers it will change to microsoft!they woud probably change a lot of things if they were to 'take over'.
End of the line baby.
I won't close my account... And I doubt Yahoo! users will notice much of a difference. The folks who'll probably suffer or benefit the most will likely be (a) Yahoo! employees and (b) any companies who've got marketing contracts with Yahoo!...

My inner conspiracy theorist can't help but wonder when Microsoft's hunger for power and world domination will be satiated. Microsoft comes off a bit of a monster to me.

Couple the fact that Yahoo! stocks have been on a steady decline with the recent announcement of impending layoffs... The idea that Microsoft won't take no for an answer this time around- makes them look like sharks circling a sinking ship- preying on the new Yahoo! Chairman as if to say they don't think he'll have the backbone say no to Microsoft...

Frankly- as a whole- I can't decide which will be a better route. Forge on without Microsoft or be swallowed up by them...
As I stated in another question, I would closed my Account immediately. Microsoft domination is over.

I think Yahoo should be as bold as Google, and support open source software. Open source has a HUGE community and like every one else in the community aside from me. We all know to use Linux for our OS, Firefox for our browser, and Google for out searches. Do the math!?

Google is a commonwealth, Yahoo is a socialist, and Microsoft is capitalism and a communist.
if anthing microsoft will make yahoo better...i hope this happens.
Maybe. I just hope they do not get rid of yahoo answers.
My email is a paid account that i use for the extra options, I don't want to lose it. The value that yahoo has is its search engine and user base, if Microsoft buys yahoo, hopefully they are smart enough to not get users mad enough to leave.

Whether to sell yahoo is a tough decision, yahoo is still making a profit but looks like the stock value is approaching 2003 levels which is bad. The economy is also not that good so many companies are having problems. It is sad to see the yahoo employees go to work after the announcement of planned reductions, they still seem upbeat though, it will be different now that microsoft made an offer.
yea likurim "End of the line baby."
I will close my Yahoo account which I have had for 10 years and I will not renew my Flickr Pro account.This kind of buy out is exactly why anti-trust laws were created.

“The potential concern would be that Microsoft, if it acquires Yahoo, could do on the Internet what it did in the personal computer world — make technical standards more Microsoft-centric and steer consumers to its products,” said Stephen D. Houck, a lawyer representing the states involved in the consent decree against Microsoft.
probably.

based on my expectations that msft will just screw up the already flawed "beta" features of yahoo, a combination of the two would only be worse.

microsoft can't actually invent anything they only copy. who are they going to copy if they buy the source...? this means they will start cutting out things that they can't support like 'answers', omg, email identities, etc.

eventually yahoo will become plain vanilla with advertisements on every square inch of every page. have you ever looked at msn encarta - the online encyclopedia ? i can't find content because the pages are so full of blinking, whirring, popping advertisements.