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Looks like I don't have to change my personal email... yet

Scott Hooks  |     |  Tags:  yahoo microsoft yellowbleeders  |  Comments (2)
I have used Yahoo for my personal email for the past 10 years or so. The recent discussions about Microsoft acquiring Yahoo had me thinking about where to move my personal mail to should that happen. Thankfully as of last night, it appears that deal will not be happening. But it does make me wonder what I would have done.

My first thought was of course Google, but I firmly believe that IBM Lotus and Google will find themselves in increasingly competitive situations over the next several years and I long ago swore I'd never go back to AOL or ever tie my personal email address to my "ISP du jour". There are plenty of free email services out there, but none of them appeal to me as much as my good old DWA 8.0 or Yahoo mail. So for now, I'll stay put, but (ahem IBM), it sure would be great to see Bluehouse offer free lighweight public mail services. I bet Amazon beats them to the punch though. :-)


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1 Yancy Lent      Permalink I'm with you on this one. It's funny to think of the huge market force implications at play and all I cared about was my email address changing ;).

2 Vitor Pereira      Permalink Don't write this off right away. MSFT dropped the offer as Yahoo was returning to the negotiations under pressure from their shareholders, as a result Yahoo shares dropped 15%. I believe MSFT will soon make a lower offer that Yahoo will take.


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