Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 12:56 p.m.

Maybe Microsoft can now make facebook work as fantastic as the Vista OS.

Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 1:30 p.m.

At least, by way of the bidding war, Google made MS pay a hefty sum for this. Now when is Google's social networking site coming out?

Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 1:31 p.m.

Way to go Facebook!!! Now watch your site start slowing down and get cluttered!

Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 1:33 p.m.

Coming soon to Facebook: Blue screen of death!

Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 1:44 p.m.

Very classy posts made by people with a combined IQ of 87.

Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 1:45 p.m.

Fine. My Facebook account will close.

Idiots at Facebook.

Microsoft deserved ugly MySpace...surely.

Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 1:46 p.m.

It is just a deal to sell ads on Facebook, how do you guys expect Facebook to have the blue screen of death, work like vista, etc. Pure bias against Microsoft this.

Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 1:48 p.m.

Why would anyone with common sense think Facebook worth 15 billion? MS has too much money and don't know what to do with it.

Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 1:49 p.m.

Microsoft is so bad these days, it deserves to have bias against it.

Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 1:52 p.m.

It is not because Microsoft has too much money - 35% of the population spending time on social networks is from the Asia-Pacific region and this deal seals Microsoft's stake to sell ads to the rest of the world other than just the US. It will spin a significant income. Facebook may not be $15 billion now but wait till it is an IPO and then you can do what you want to say it is not worth that much but the markets are likely to disagree with you :)

Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 1:56 p.m.

Oh so it is bad because it is new to advertising, to search, to music players, gaming consoles, etc and it is competing against companies who do just that business? How many have products like sharepoint, dynamics, unified messaging, surface, etc? Any answers to that? Who is the leader in Enterprise and Small Business solutions? Microsoft buddy. You cant judge the company based on a few things it is improving on. The other companies HAVE to be spot on with their products because those are the ONLY things they have to generate revenues from. Not the case with Microsoft.

Posted by unregistered user at 10/24/07 3:38 p.m.

Here is the problem:

Microsoft USED to be an innovator. They used to lead, not follow.

Now they are chasing, chasing, chasing. . . .

That is a sure sign of a behemoth in trouble.

The question isn't "is this a good deal, will Microsoft benefit, is social networking the wave of the future?"

The real question is why in the heck is it taking Microsoft THIS FLIPPING LONG to act?

This will go the way of every other MS effort of the last few years. It will turn into a second or third place joke that is cumbersome, cluttered and worthless.

Posted by Nunatak at 10/24/07 3:44 p.m.

With one stroke, Facebook has been rendered terminally uncool. If I had a page up on the site, all it would take is the Microsoft 'kiss of death' for me to remove it.

Posted by BeenHereAWhile at 10/24/07 4:45 p.m.

Poor Microsoft. They're the tech industry equivalent of that forty-year-old guy with a beer gut and a mullet driving around high schools in his rusty Camaro.

Don't feel bad. You'll always have your glory days of Windows 3.1.

Posted by unregistered user at 10/25/07 4:06 a.m.

hey, did you want to hear about just another google multi billion dolar deal? have some diversity, enjoy it as long as it lasts :-)

Posted by unregistered user at 10/27/07 2:35 p.m.

Perhaps one of the reasons that Google and Facebook did not hit it off is that so many Google employees, from top executives down to secretaries, have been defecting to Facebook. Perhaps Facebook did not want to stem that tide of talent, which would probably be an issue if Google had invested in Facebook.

Posted by unregistered user at 11/1/07 5:11 p.m.

Been here awhile, No more like the new camaro that broadsided me in 83 good thing I was in a heavy metal coronet with retractable lap belts. Microsoft is neither rusty or poor & neither was my first car IT had factory torque.