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Mr. Ballmer on April 5, 2008 send a letter to Yahoo board, mentioning Microsoft attempt to buy Yahoo -- through the "next means necessary". Please click here to read more.
While business letter is a usual thing to create. The MEAN-ness of the letter and the feel of arrogance of how things being communicated -- I feel -- really deserve this to be the UGLIEST BUSINESS LETTER ever created, in the whole century!
Oh, Mr. Ballmer, I think you're the worst thing for Microsoft today. I don't think the internet would be better, if Yahoo is acquired by Microsoft under the leadership of Mr. Ballmer. He's just no Bill Gates at all.
Somewhere in Microsoft great history, there was a story that fascinate us of how Microsoft buy the core of "DOS" from Tim Paterson at that time, and then build a really huge business with it. That was a great business story that we tell each other from generation to generation.
But the whole aura of that transaction was an aura of a tiny, smart, adaptive, fast moving, responsive business doing business with others in the sense of respectable attitude and in the spirit of respecting each other.
This transaction that Microsoft try to do, seem Ballmerian by nature: it's arrogant, it's "nostalgic" with something that Microsoft has done successfully in the past (when it was tiny and small), but all and all it lost one of the most importance essence: these transactions (under the leadership of Mr. Ballmer) -- I don't know why -- always feel competitive & EVIL-istic, ... while Microsoft's competitiveness and attempt in the past (when they were tiny -- under the leadership of Bill Gates) is always feel to be something that innovative, pure, smart, competitive yes, but at the same time build the market and/or the future for the better.
33 years after it is being founded, under the leadership of Mr. Ballmer today, Microsoft seem really really changing.
What a pity. (And a shame). I wish one day Bill Gates is back.
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