Photos on Yahoo: Ballmer about to devour Yang

Here's another funny Yahoo-related juxtaposition (David posted one earlier today), featuring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, left, and Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. Link (Thanks, Sylvia!)

[#1 posted by Jeff , February 11, 2008 11:43 AM]

Yang can hold his shares if he is bold
The others will sell for greed of gold
All things equal and all things told
Microsoft knows the cards they hold
And in the end, YAHOO will be Sold

I'm looking forward to dumping this stock! Yahoooooooo.

[#2 posted by phlavor , February 11, 2008 12:01 PM]

Steve Ballmer is not a man know for his photogenicness.

[#3 posted by Takuan , February 11, 2008 12:05 PM]

sure he is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc

[#4 posted by jonathan_v , February 11, 2008 12:07 PM]

If this goes though, how long until yahoo is utterly worthless?

The 2 companies have completely different corporate cultures, and development ones too - everyone at Yahoo engineering & development is likely getting fired as Freebsd/Linux, + php mysql and other open source apps are trashed for .NET , and then we all wonder "what cool new web-apps and web portals will be built on .NET?" Um, none.

Short-term, this would be great for Yahoo stockholders... but within 2 years, the company will nearly die, and in 5 years microsoft will start dealing with losses from the failed acquisition and try to sell it off.

[#5 posted by Chuck , February 11, 2008 2:44 PM]

>sure he is!
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc

Dear lord.

I'm guessing he has the mindset of the kinds of managers who'd tell me something like, "You're not emotionally invested," a few minutes before a security guard escorts me -- toting a box of my personal possessions -- from my desk and out the front door.

[#6 posted by dculberson , February 11, 2008 6:02 PM]

takuan, doing a teener before a keynote sure makes things interesting.

[#7 posted by Takuan , February 11, 2008 6:26 PM]

for a moment there I thought you were referring to his ritual defiling of a sailor-suited victim

[#8 posted by Wareq , February 11, 2008 6:58 PM]

Developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers!

[#9 posted by Jake0748 , February 12, 2008 10:09 AM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc

Oh my Gawd, I thought I hated microsoft BEFORE I saw this. Do you think this guy EVER had a soul?