Software is not a dead end! So why would Microsoft want to get into the crazy businesses that Yahoo! plays in—social networks, advertising sales, photo-sharing sites, search directories, personal ads, phone-sex come-ons, news summaries, stock charting, scrapbooking, dogs and cats, MySpace wannabees, and so on. Are you folks at Microsoft clinically insane? Have you not learned your lesson from MSN—the wannabee AOL killer? Cripes, get a grip.

This is all because the new kid, Google, which has nothing to do with you in reality, came along and is making money with a search engine. Oh no, hit the panic button! Let's spend all our money in an effort to, uh, compete with Google.

And what is it with all the geniuses who think this was a good plan? Do the math. Forty four billion and you were considering spending more!? For what? Earth to Microsoft: Yahoo! is not worth $44 billion. You could buy General Motors lock, stock, and barrel for $14 billion, name all the cars "Google Sucks," and get more bang for the buck. Heck, you'd have enough left over to buy Ford for around $16 billion, and you could name all those cars "Google Sucks More" and still have $14 billion left over for a big party. Does anyone ever look at the market cap of these multinational firms for a reality check? Microsoft wanted to oust the Yahoo! board of directors. It should oust its own. Geez.

No wonder Linux is gaining ground on you guys.