Why Microsoft/Yahoo! is a perfect match
“The shrieky, out-of-tune verbiage and garish illustrations resemble my friends’ failed attempts to write books for children.”
-Valleywag’s Paul Boutin on Yahoo’s page design.
We could say all the same things about Clippy, couldn’t we? The crucifixions of interface design that these two companies have perpetrated in the name of branding deserve to be ghettoized together; I’m just happy that now I’ll have only one big source of web services to avoid.
In deference to Microsoft’s complete dominance of this deal, though, let’s dispense with the “Microhoo!” abbreviation and just go for “Microsoft!”, which captures exactly how much this deal is really worth to Redmond. If you must, you can write it in Yahoo’s silly font, but please, no purple.
UPDATE: Slate’s Chris Wilson is down with my slang.
evan :: Feb.01.2008 :: NetBits :: No Comments »