Microsoft and Yahoo.. the real M&A challenge…

4 02 2008

Yahoo logoMaybe the biggest challenge Microsoft will face is cultural. Yahoo’s 14,300 employees come largely from the Silicon Valley world that loves to hate Microsoft. “Yahoo has always considered itself a bit of an upstart,” says a former Yahoo employee who asked to remain anonymous. “Most Yahoo employees will feel that, A., we lost, and B., there is no way in hell that I am going to work for Microsoft.”
From a BusinessWeek article