The reason I put this picture on the group is because I thought I could bring up something people hate about Microsoft: the blue Windows crashing screen, and mix it with something we all know and love from Yahoo: Flickr and its [pink and blue] colours. The group might be a creation of overexcitement though, as you can see with some pointless pictures.

It's not so much about Flickr users being scared of Microsoft taking over Flickr but against Microsoft taking over Yahoo. With Microsoft taking over Yahoo, web-users will be left with a choice of only Google or Microsoft. Microsoft has a very bad image for some users, possibly because of the unstable Windows operating-system or the lack of innovation in some domains (like the Internet Explorer browser). This kind of scares Yahoo fans."

I will quit Flickr if the MS purchase of Yahoo goes through. I will miss the wonderful people and talented photographers I've virtually met on Flickr. I think that the Yahoo! culture is vastly different than the Microsoft culture. I hope Yahoo! looks for partners elsewhere."

Yahoo running Flickr has had negative impacts ... nothing extreme yet, but losing my Flickr user ID I'd say it's pretty large and being forced to create a Yahoo! account is significant. Microsoft will kill Flickr ....That means I have less than a year to find a suitable replacement and hope they have an easy way to migrate my photos off Flickr and into the new system.(...)

Flickr's personality is one that can't be beaten. (...) It will be a sad day if the Yahoo! properties we've all come to know and love fall under the control of Microsoft that seems to destroy everything they touch."