Live Japan: Microsoft to Softbank

Week calm in Tokyo, half eaten away by two joined the holidays last weekend, in short, almost summer vacation for the Japanese. Truce taunts. Wednesday, May 7, a character who, what anyone says, will have marked the history of high-tech, the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, came to visit us. This is not the first time since man, permanent smile, goes to Tokyo regularly, if only to welcome the partners and clients of his group in Japan, still very attached to these small gestures of propriety.

Qu’avait therefore to say while Mr Gates’ Redmond giant “is the subject of much criticism on its structural rigidity and the fact that he had not anticipated early enough all the upheavals cause qu’allait use massive Internet? In a few words that Microsoft intends to continue to follow its path that is not an impasse that some announced, even if its bid Yahoo! suggesting the contrary.

“We have devoted much effort to talk to Yahoo! and we took the decision to pursue our own path, “said Gates at a press conference, adding “at this stage, Microsoft focuses on its independent strategy”. The group has indeed given his grip on the 47 billion dollars he had laid on the table to take over Yahoo, which, not little presumptuous, required 5 billion more. Microsoft does not, if you believe Bill Gates, change to new opinion, at least not immediately, even if the withdrawal group Redmond provoked the anger of shareholders of Yahoo! , Which now urge its CEO, Jerry Yang, to be more flexible.