Considering Microsoft's liking for abbreiviations (e.g. MSN) how about MY! (Microsoft - Yahoo!)

Saint Bill for "saving" Yahoo!

Sounds like an insult from a Pirate.

Rupert Murdoch, What about 'Murdhoo'?

... following past trends it's going to be like this:

On acquisition:

"We'll maintain the strong brand that Yahoo! has to offer"

3 months later, some Y! specific features start popping up on MSLive

6 months later:

"The Yahoo! brand doesn't really fit the strategy Microsoft Live is pursuing"

More Y! features get bastardized into Live

9 months to 1 year later:

"We've decided to discontinue the Yahoo! brand because it offers no significantly increased value over our Live! brand"

Final features get hacked into Live, the Y! domain gets redirected - extend, embrace, exterminate ....

I can see dark-colored helicopters approac...

Microsoft!

Because the bang is the best thing about Yahoo!.

IGMC

Aw... they have fixed the multiple voting in polls bug... Can't cheat anymore...

Those options sound like names of creatures from Lovecraft's works.

Very appropriate, if you ask me...

Anon, because i want to rest in peace, if there be any rest in the universe...

How about "Lhoosers!!!!" ?

Because it sounds right - Like someone's crying - which they probably are.

"Microsoft - the massive company run by a bunch of Yahoos"

When do we find out? Can we keep an eye on the results in the meantime? (It's a slow day at work, can you tell?).

Somebody on the train the other day was talking loudly about this, only their information was way out of date [from Metro, probably] ... and I thought "G*d! Just Drop! The! Mahoo!" (then wallowed privately in my sudden sense of feeling old).

Nice to see it as an option :)

I'm! Hoping! That! The! Merger! Goes! Ahead! Because! I'm! Looking! Forward! To! Reg! Staff! Having! To! Put! Exclamation! Marks! On! Every! Microsoft! Story! !!

I prefer the tried 'n' tested strategy boutique anagram naming approach, which gives us...

...Osmotic Hoof Ray!

I was hoping for that choice, because it sounds more like an insult.

...would get my vote.

Microsoft Web Site Portal and Search - Premium Home Edition

If it's anything like the Alcatel Lucent take over it will be :-

1,$s/Yahoo\!/Microsoft/g

... Knock, knock!

Who's there?

Microhoo!

<shrugs> That's show business! <slams door in their faces>

MiYahee?

MiYahoo-hoo!!

Methinks there is another another dodgy you tube esque video coming

I personally think Microshaft is the best option...

Mostly I just like to say <wibble!>, but then I'm like that.

How about:

'Micro Oaf Shy Too' or 'Shot Cia From Yoo' or my fave, 'Farty Coo Ish Moo'

This isn't a merger, it's a takeover. The resulting company would be called "Microsoft". But if that's the case I think we should pay homage to Yahoo! by forever referring to the new outfit as "Microsoft!"

Long live exclamation marks!

Mark Shuttleworth must have some spare cash lying around..?

More Bollocks from Microsoft? MBM?

May not be catchy... Just honest!

I'll get me coat. P.

Sh!te

How about just

$!

Mihoo! sounds like a type of noodle...hmmm is this a match endorsed by His Noodly Appendages?

Microsoft Yahoo Live! services for the Web Online Edition 2009 Premium

...simple as that, the Why?crosoft! is also appealing.

'Cause it sounds like you're yakking up every time you say it...

...."Microsoft!"

Oh the WOW! Start! Here! Yippee!

Oh! That! Sure! Will! Start! The! Chair! Throwing! Game!

... as Burma Jones would have said.

"oh shit we are all doomed"

I've taken it too far haven't I?

Coat, please!

Looks like this one is winning so far. A squllion quid and/or a big legal battle to whoever snaps up Microhoo.com first, then

that is the tibetean name for what westerners call the 'terrible snowman !'

I like the "MicroHoo!" option because it helps us move towards the day when we can say "Micro Who?" out loud.

The reader should decide if this is a reference to cowed customers / analysts, bovine waste product or even setting up Gateway as a future takeover target

-MLF

Seems somebody went there already. And they seem to be ready for the legal implications, with the logo and stuff. If they're US based they could probably call it parody, but UK has different rules, right? :-)

Regards,

Peter

yoohoogoogle! (Are you there?)

MSY (Why? 'cause I gotta!)

Yahoo! (when MS realizes that fish bite back)

Mahoo! (We all owe it to mum)

MSX! (Anyone remember this?)

Miycarhoosooft! (just an idea)

Yamaicansoft (peace)

Nevergonnahappen! (Yahoo!'s answer)

Linux! (Shit happens, Microsoft)

Fubar! (one month after takeover)

Layoff! (two months after takeover)

Leftover! (three months after takeover)

Scraps! (any bid!)

PH! (Any excuse!)

The moneypit, formerly known as Yahoo!

MSN 2.0

My Internet

Portal de Vista

Microsoft South (Microsoft North being Redmond)

I'm more fond of MiiHoo!

It reminds me of a certain game console that *might* somehow runs Yahoo!...

Yahshit.

Which really isn't a change, is it?

"I comfort yahoos"

"Rot – ooh, my fiasco!"

In order to understand this Microsoft/Yahoo thing I think one schould look at the state "off balls" within Microsoft.

Bill is gone, he newer become the "great innovator" in IT. Well there was this "Newton" or something. Something about inventing the computer or something like that.

Bill has a bright future of becoming the number god sellsman for Windows bundling Windows with his fundation for bundling Windows with that fundation.

A sort of swapp this for that and lets all be merry.

Ballmer. however, has a problem, the balls are there, king size, I bet, perhaps.

But then there is that problem with all those billions of dollars under the madrass attracting the attention of shareholders who have been looking at the "figures" and rightly, demand some of that as a compensation for the hardship of beeing a Microsoft shareholder.

So, dear Ballmer, has to do something. I am sure he has not got the faintest idea about what to do with Yahoo. But then, what are the alternatives, really.

And having signed the biggest IT deal in the history of IT is really something for the Ballmers.

Microsoft / Yachoo, best version so far is Yahvool.

(or something close, check theinquirer.net)

One can only hope for "Microsoft!". I'd always wanted to see that company end with a bang...

Yes indeed sir, that looks exactly like my coat, thank y<thud>

Offered with all sincerity by spokesperson: "MicroHoo cares!"

More helpful during 'downtimes': "YahSoft? Get BluePill 2.0!"

Paris, because that's all she's interested in.

Why not "MicroHoo?" because nobody has a decent name for the godawful unpronounceable thing.

The diving suit please, it's getting pretty deep around here.

Late Night Larry

I had a friend that worked at Daimler-Chrysler when they were a combined company and she said the running joke was to ask one of the Germans how to pronounce the company's new name.

To which, they would answer "Daimler, the Chrysler is silent."

Yahoo Lives! (insert MSN proprietary text)

i think it's kinda catchy, but it might be a bit too descriptive, the trademarks registry won't allow it.

Points For

1. It constitutes a valid condensate of the parent companies names.

2. Brevity.

3. Easy to pronounce in any language. Universally recognisable.

4. Humourous. Saying "I'm from MOO!" wearing a suit and tie would banish all thoughts of evil money grabbing corporations from the prospective's mind.

5. Fits recommendations from "The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding," by Al Ries and Laura Ries, which states that "A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all of the other cattle on the range."

That exclamation mark is a killer application.

Against

1. Business types like something enigmatic, long, difficult to translate, arid and pretentious.

You can close the gates on the voting ... I believe MOO! fits the bill nicely.

What happened to the Yahoo-AOL possibility, as in

yAhOoL

MicroWho: Doctor Who's miniature companion.

Mine's the pale blue police box-shaped one.

If Microsoft takes over Yahoo!, what's Linux going to do?

There's only one name for Yahoo by Microsoft. It is YahMic!

...Microsoft is the kind of Corporation that puts it's Name on EVERYTHING it owns.

From this you can assume what kind of Corporation Microsoft is...

So MSNLive! it is then...

Yeah, Microhoo! certainly needed those extra exclamation marks. It all make sense now.

I have dumped everything Microsoft, so, if Yahoo join with Microsoft they will never again see me. I now enjoy everything Apple and my life with computers has never been more pleasant. The operating system works properly, there isn't any bloatware, software installs so simply that I almost can't believe it, I can all but forget about viruses, worms, trojans, etc. and get on with enjoying the use of properly designed and reliable systems and equipment.

They should be paying me for this !! ... hahahaha

Surely Live will be in the name, being the current trendy word at Redmond?

It's like the days when everything had to be ActiveX or have Active in there somewhere.

Re: Apple -

The OS works because the hardware is fixed, the software is Linux based, and you pay a huge premium for its development through the hardware. When you consider just what MS have to support, it's a miracle anything works at all (and I know Linux supports a lot of hardware, but just try running Linux on any modern PC laptop and get all the components to work without resorting to recompiling the kernel or contacting a spotty Russian teenager for a fix to his driver!).