"It is unfortunate that by choosing not to enter into substantive negotiations with us, you have failed to give due consideration to a transaction that has tremendous benefits for Yahoo!'s shareholders and employees," thundered Microsoft's Steve Ballmer yesterday in a letter to the Board of Directors of Yahoo! after a two-month lull in which Yahoo! has done nothing whatsoever to encourage Microsoft's $44.6BN uninvited takeover bid for it...and quite a bit to frustrate it.
Ballmer's letter underlines that in this 2-month interim "we've seen no indication that you have authorized Yahoo! management to negotiate with Microsoft" and continues:
