Microsoft Hijack of Yahoo

This abusive relationship lasted a couple of years and Yahoo! kept rejecting Microsoft. Microsoft resorted to a proxy battle against Yahoo!, drove away staff, put its own staff inside, used AstroTurf techniques to block a Yahoo! deal with Google, and eventually got Yahoo! on the cheap, after Yahoo! had appointed a former Microsoft partner to be CEO, along with Microsoft proxies like Carl Icahn who left as soon as the deal was complete. Here are some of the posts about it.

2008

 * Microsoft, Yahoo and Control of Information
 * Links 1/02/2008: Microsoft+Yahoo, Linux, Ogg, Miro, and Open-source
 * Would Microsoft ‘Pull a Hula’ on Zimbra?
 * Meet Microsoft: World’s Chief Acquisitions Policeman
 * Update on the Microsoft/Yahoo Situation: Google-Yahoo Alliance?
 * About That Yahoo Deal/Bid and Its Impact
 * Links 06/02/2008: Many GNU/Linux Releases, Yahoo Gets More Bids
 * Links 07/02/2008: Truecrypt 5 Released, More Linux Phones Coming, Microsoft-Yahoo Going Kaput?
 * Links 10/02/2008: Yahoo to Reject Microsoft Offer; Linux LCA; SCALE Starts
 * Links 11/02/2008: Linux 2.6.25 RC1, Conferences Kick Off, Microsoft Kicked Out (by Yahoo!)
 * Links 11/02/2008: Yahoo Bullied; Red Hat, Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org Take Market Share Chunk
 * Acquire to Exploit, Acquire to Eliminate
 * Links 12/01/2008: GNU/Linux Spreads; Microsoft Could Resort to Extortion in Yahoo! Case
 * Links 14/02/2008: Linux Excursions, Yahoo Seen Walking Away from Microsoft
 * Did Microsoft Hijack XenSource Like It Tries to Hijack Yahoo?
 * What if Microsoft Owned Yahoo (and the US Government Establishments’ IT)?
 * Microsoft Must Be Absolutely Terrified
 * As Yahoo Proxy War Looms, VMWare and Nokia Return to One’s Mind
 * Possibly Another Microsoft Antitrust Over Abuse of Yahoo, Market; Then Comes Dark (Silver) Light
 * Links 28/02/2008: Yahoo Still Bullied, Google Comes Around; Heaps of GNU/Linux-related Good News
 * References Roundup: Microsoft’s Financial Situation
 * Links 07/03/2008: New GNU/Linux Laptops and Tablets, Microsoft Might Make All-cash Offer to Yahoo (i.e. Deeper Debt)
 * Microsoft Fires Up Proxy War Against Yahoo as Debt Looms Over
 * Links 10/04/2008: New GNOME, UNESCO Promotes Free Software, Yahoo Chooses Escape Route (Google, Java, AOL, Investors)
 * Microsoft Fight Against Yahoo Board Gets Uglier
 * Links 25/04/2008: Windows Sales Down 24%, Yahoo Bid Wobbly
 * Links 30/04/2008: KDE 4.1 Reaches Alpha, Microsoft Proxy Fight Against Yahoo Foreseen
 * Links 16/05/2008: Red Hat Upgrade, Microsoft May Be Behind Yahoo Proxy War
 * Microsoft’s Proxy Fight May Have Begun Weeks Ago, Quietly
 * Microsoft: How Will the Internet Have it Remembered?
 * What Lies Inside…
 * Don’t Play Politics and Diplomacy with Microsoft
 * LawMedia Group May be Another Confirmed Microsoft AstroTurfing Agency
 * Lesson in Attacks by Proxy: Microsoft Versus Google
 * Eye on Microsoft: Windows Shatter, Yahoo Recommends Firefox 3
 * Microsoft Against Apple and Google, By Proxy?
 * Microsoft Executives Land Inside Microsoft Rivals
 * Microsoft Executives Penetrate Corel, Yahoo; Is Novell Next?
 * Google’s Get the Facts Website
 * Who’s Bugging Google and Apple? (Updatedx2)
 * Internal, Financial, Prospective Problems at Microsoft
 * King of Hypocrisy(ahoo!)
 * Microsoft’s Latest Ugly Tactics Against Google, Yahoo, and VMware
 * Microsoft is Doing it Again… to Yahoo and Google
 * Microsoft: 800 lb. Guerrilla
 * Is Yahoo Becoming Microsoft from the Inside?
 * G^H^H… Boo-Hoo!
 * Eye on Microsoft: Windows Under Attack from Critics, Cyber Criminals; Yahoo! Besieged by Microsoft
 * Video: Bloomberg on Yahoo/Google/Microsoft
 * Associated Press Double Messages
 * Microsoft’s Sleight of Hands
 * The Microsoft-Influenced US Regulators Wrong on Yahoo!
 * Microsoft Hijacked Yahoo! from the Inside (Updated)
 * As Search Bribery Fails, Microsoft Turns to More Agitation and Proxy-Fighting
 * Microsoft Mole Watch: Yahoo, Amazon, Costco
 * No Hope for Microsoft’s On-line Ambitions
 * Yahoo’s IP Director — and Patent Troll Fighter — Quits? (Confirmed)
 * How Would GNU/Linux Users Be Affected if Yahoo/Microsoft Went Through?

2009

 * Report: Microsoft Proxy Fight Against Yahoo! Still on
 * Yahoo: The Biggest Threat Comes from the Inside
 * Quick Mention: Yahoo and Microsoft in Contact Again
 * Microsoft and Politics (Against Google)
 * More Microsoft Cronies in United States Government, Other Companies
 * Newly-Appointed Yahoo Puppet: Let Microsoft Have Us
 * Microsoft: The Cronies, the Pressure, and Staff Reductions
 * Quick Mentions: Xenocode and Microsoft, Yahoo and Microsoft, F/OSS Slandered by Microsoft Ecosystem
 * Yahoo CFO Invites Microsoft, Then Abandons Ship
 * Bully on the Internet
 * Were Yahoo and Lenovo Poisoned from the Inside?
 * Microsoft Loses to Google, Microsoft’s Anti-Google Lobby Unable to Change Laws Anymore
 * Microsoft’s Very Own “Death Spiral” (on the Web)
 * Latest Signs That Microsoft Loses the Fight for the Web
 * Microsoft is Still Attacking Google via Publishers
 * Carol and Carl (Bartz and Icahn) Subscribe for the Assault on Google
 * Microsoft’s Online Business is Crumbling Even Further
 * Confirmed: Microsoft Tries to Turn Regulators Against Google (Again)
 * New Speculations About Microsoft Buying Citrix or Grabbing Yahoo! Search
 * Yahoo! and Microsoft Still Search for a Future!
 * Microsoft’s Anti-Google Whisper Campaign
 * Microsoft Pays More People to Attack Google as Microsoft’s Search Queries Fall Another 14 Percent in May
 * Bing Executive Quits Microsoft, But Microsoft Colony is Built at eBay
 * How History Gets Warped — Not Forgotten — to Conceal Microsoft Violations
 * Guess Who Inside Yahoo! Supports a Microsoft Deal? Microsoft’s Correspondent, Icahn
 * Microsoft’s Proxy Fight Against Yahoo! Turns it to Puppet State
 * More Linux and Open Source Infiltrations from Microsoft
 * The Ugly Reality of the Yahoo-Microsoft Deal
 * Did Microsoft Also Poison Yahoo’s Free Software?
 * Yahoo! Dives Right into Microsoft’s Anti-Google Agenda!
 * Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal Not a Done Deal, But Microsoft Proceeds to Other Deals as Search Ambitions Fail
 * Antitrust Barriers to Microsoft’s Anti-Google; Google Takes Matters into Own Hands
 * Microsoft Insider/Partner Warns All That Microsoft “Destroys” Partners
 * More Losses and Antitrust Barriers for Microsoft Online
 * Another Front Group with Microsoft Employees Joins Coalition Against Google
 * Yahoo!-Microsoft Now Scrutinised by US Regulators Too
 * Comes Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Destroy Borland (Like It Did Yahoo!)
 * More Antitrust Pressure for Yahoo!-Microsoft, Google Blocked by MSDOJ
 * Microsoft’s Google Chase Gets Harder
 * Microsoft, Google, and the Impact on Free Software Revisited
 * Google Continues Eating Microsoft’s Lunch
 * Microsoft/Icahn’s Coup Against Yahoo! and Yang is Done
 * No Yahoo! for Microsoft, Carl Icahn Sued by Goldman Sachs
 * Microsoft, Ask, and the AstroTurf Against Yahoo! Remembered
 * Google’s (Staff) Index Poisoned by Microsoft
 * De Facto Microsoft Press Already Rewrites the Story of Microsoft’s Destruction of Yahoo!, Other Stories
 * How Microsoft Breaks the Internet – Latest Examples

2010

 * Former Microsoft Partner/Ally Gives Microsoft Competitor (Zimbra) to Former Microsoft Employees
 * Microsoft Recruits Partners to Fight Against Google
 * Ubuntu GNU/Linux 10.04 Search Page Links to Microsoft Datacentres
 * Icahn Takes Next Step in Microsoft’s Proxy Battle, IE8 Demotes Google
 * Microsoft Takes Over Yahoo! Search to Increase Brainwash of the Public
 * How Microsoft Quietly Takes Over Yahoo! Search, in Coup D’état Fashion
 * More of Microsoft Sought to Manage Yahoo! (Coup D’état)
 * As Google Eats Microsoft’s Cash Cow Ballmer Finds New Attack Dogs in Yahoo!
 * Microsoft-Dominated Yahoo! Deletes the Linux/Open Source Section
 * Yahoo! Search Personnel Fired, Microsoft’s Bong (sic) Sued for Patent Violations
 * Yahoo as Microsoft’s New Home, Microsoft New Zealand Boss Too is Leaving
 * First It Was Yahoo! and Now It’s AOL
 * Microsoft Can’t Afford to Buy Search Market Share Anymore, Kills What’s Left of Yahoo!
 * AstroTurfer Against Google Wants to Buy Google Real Estate, Old Anti-Google AstroTurfers (Hired by Microsoft) Recalled
 * How Microsoft Taking Over Yahoo! (Proxy Fight/Entryism) Harms the Industry, Not Just Yahoo!
 * Microsoft Entryism Continues at Yahoo! as More Microsoft Managers Occupy the Shaken Ship

2011

 * Microsoft Has Killed Yahoo! for Its Userbase

2013

 * Yahoo ‘Search’ is Still a Microsoft Front End, Its Real Search Engine Destroyed by Microsoft Entryism
 * Criminal Behaviour at Microsoft Exploits Preying on Yahoo!

2015

 * Yahoo’s Current CEO (Mayer, Formerly of Google) is Trying to End Yahoo! Status as Microsoft Proxy
 * Who Kills Yahoo? It's Microsoft, Not Yahoo!

2016

 * Finishing Icahn's and Ballmer's Job: Microsoft Wants to Kill Yahoo! and Exterminate GNU/Linux in Datacentres
 * Yahoo’s Patent Portfolio Might Soon Be ‘Monetised’ by Passage to Trolls at the Rate of at Least $100,000 Per Patent
 * The Death of Software Patents and Microsoft's Coup Against Yahoo! Made the Company Worthless