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Commenter ABMW writes:

I have contacted a few mid-level management people at Yahoo who could be described as, 'Yahoo Purple Lifers". They have intimated that they will stay and work to make any cultural changes to the organization, and I quote, "as painful as possible for the new Microsoft directors and division Veeps, short of insurrection".

Which shows why a Microsoft takeover was necessary in the first place.(Photo by swamp_of_dumb)