Comments on: Microsoft Should Buy Adobe Instead Of Yahoo!

By: @vijaydev_

@vijaydev_ — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:31:03 +0000

I really do not wish Microsoft to buy Adobe. Softwares released by Microsoft is only helpful to house moms, and couch potatoes. They do not have a decent browser (yet). When it comes to professional level of production, design and coding frame, Adobe is the only answer.

Now just think! What happens when you give a non-creative person a painting software? Just because he has a set of shiny brushes and effects, he cannot make a masterpiece. What he does is pure slaughtering of Art! And this is exactly what will happen If Microsoft buys Adobe!

May the US Govt. never allow this!

By: Suresh

Suresh — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:01:57 +0000

I agree that this is not a totally crappy idea. Throughout history, a big company buys a small company, in almost all cases, to eliminate competition. So, since Adobe has always been competing with Microsoft, it makes sense for Microsoft to buy Adobe, but not in its entirety. Adobe should split the company into different business units and then sell the key units to Microsoft. Here again, Microsoft is also interested in buying part of Adobe to ensure their arch rival Google does not beat them in this space too.

By: Ibraheem Nour

Ibraheem Nour — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:00:42 +0000

Microsoft for Sure …. to sale it and invest in another useful company

By: Mohammad Taghi Karimi

Mohammad Taghi Karimi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:46:52 +0000

you know , i know m$ change so many thing in computer world but i hate evryone who works in m$ coz they don’t think about people just money and money F###em all
but adobe , google i love them coz they are doing the best things in the computer world
if i had money i’m going to buy google and adobe make them one to change the world not for money

By: Ammar

Ammar — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:53:49 +0000

“MS Paint definetely could use help from Photoshop.”
…omg! this is like comparing notepad to MS Word!

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. This will be the worst acquisition in human history, just too many tech overlap and culture gap. Yahoo is also not a prefect match for MS to buy, but it’s the best right now.

But Adobe will be a suitable for Google.

To answer your question, i will buy a large number of startups that have technology or community to increase my web presence and web-ad market share (rather than search engine share)

By: wangjel

wangjel — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:32:51 +0000

ssssssht………please don’t give ideas,
yahoo is sufered already enough youdon’t wish the same hyena for adobe…..pleeease let them be

By: Amit Chowdhry

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:54:12 +0000

The base is that Microsoft’s software would improve and Adobe shareholders would be able to cash out.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:11:52 +0000

its a totally immature idea which has no base…

By: Amit Chowdhry

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:57:31 +0000

Microsoft and Adobe have been competing for years. It’s not a crappy idea. Companies do it all the time. In the business world, it’s called horizontal integration.

By: Oli Burgess

Oli Burgess — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:08:09 +0000

I’m sorry but I think thats a crappy idea. The whole point microsoft was pursuing yahoo was to improve its position on the web, which it has failed to do for 13 years. Online advertising will provide revenue growth potential far greater than that of the creative software industry. Microsoft has only recently started to compete head-on with adobe with its new ‘Expression’ suite of products and silverlight, and it is microsoft’s preference to grow organically as opposed to through acquisitions; so I expect we’ll see microsoft continue working on the progress its made so far.