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It's official: the unholy spawn of the Microsoft-Yahoo! coupling shall forthwith be known as Microhoo!, following a resounding victory for the neologism in our recent reader poll. In the end, Microhoo! secured no less than 30! per! cent! of the 4,249 votes cast, soundly thrashing YaMicrohoosoft! into second spot. The results …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    No Bulgarian Airbags?

    ... and no sign of that lass with the EEE either. It's a sad day at El-Reg towers.

    Mine's the tin-foil one

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  2. Geoff Mackenzie

    Damn

    I was rooting for YaSoft! - never mind. Nice logo though, and the pun wouldn't have worked with my favoured option.

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  3. John Macintyre
    Gates Horns

    double damn

    I saw the title in my RSS reader and thought they'd finally given in and been bought. the world is a little safer for longer....

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  4. Ian Ferguson
    Gates Halo

    Microhoo! Cares!

    How convenient you've forgotten who came up with that - otherwise you'd owe them at least $6bn in brandstorming fees.

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  5. Tom

    what about two names

    YahBoo Sucks as the new management (nocturnal e-)mission statement or, for the 'customers' BooHoo.

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  6. James
    Coat

    be careful now....

    remember the Australia Santa that was sacked for saying Ho Ho Ho.... (seemingly a word of disrepute for our North American friends).

    Not sure that MicroHoo wouldn't fall into the same category.

    Now where's my MicroCoat...

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  7. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
    Coat

    Very practical

    If ever Microhoo fails, we shall say in years to come

    Microwho?

    The black one please, with the drizabone hat

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  8. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    Microhoot!

    You forgot the T.

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  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Not equals

    Am I the only one who read the title as "MS plus Yahoo not equals Microhoo"?

    I'll get my coat...

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  10. Keith T
    Happy

    Thanks for the logo

    Someone buy a pint or three for whoever came up with the logo.

    It's good enough to be the un-official logo for whatever they choose for the name.

    Made oi larf

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  11. Ty
    Happy

    Name design

    What about Microhoo?

    Yasoft

    Softhoo

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  12. Carlo Graziani

    The Obvious Result of Microsoft+Yahoo!...

    ...is Microsoft.

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  13. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    @ not equals

    Nah.

    It said Microsoft + Yahoo equals Microhoo! minus Official !

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  14. Anonymous Coward
    Jobs Horns

    Well...

    I'd have gone for HooSoft, which has the advantage of having a "fun" mispelling if you drop out an "o" from the front half of the name ;)

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  15. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Thank you for caring...

    Ian, but they didn't forget - I didn't tell them. I could afford to give them "MicroHoo Cares!" because the market research is concluding and already paid for (classified as "sunk costs") over the years of my buying MS 'stuff'.

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  16. mezla
    Unhappy

    I prefer MicroYah!

    And I feel it is a gross oversight that it wasn't included in the poll.

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  17. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Let me exclaim

    I! wish! I! could! write! like! this! all! the! time!

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  18. TheMadProfessor
    Coat

    Damn! missed this ome!

    YaShmoo!

    wish I'd seen this earlier..would have won by a mile... ne' mind

    The one with the tin hoodie please...

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  19. Anonymous Coward
    Jobs Halo

    Sorry that is not good enough...

    ..Microwho? for certain (I wish).

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  20. Anonymous Coward
    Black Helicopters

    Microhoo!

    How did 'ElReg' know that I had fired up the joss-sticks, stuck on the whalesong CD and partook of a large line of Bolivian marching powder, then washed it down with one of those bloody Mexican beers, with a slice of lime wedged into the top of the bottle, when I suddenly spurted out 'Microhoo' to post here?

    Can't take your eyes off of a hovering vultures, that's for sure!

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  21. Anonymous Coward
    Linux

    @Anonymous cowardly powder sniffer

    I think the Vulture beat you to it, I saw him walking about in rasberry jelly and mumbling about the story of the shmoo.

    Penguin because I think that from the expression on his face he has just sat down in some rasberry jelly too.

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  22. PunkTiger

    Reduce Reuse Recycle

    I was hoping for something a bit more simple... like "Moo!"

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  23. Anonymous Coward
    Linux

    Lack of Imagination Readers....

    There should be subtle changes and should describe the ultimate result of the two company. It ought to be:

    Micro....Who?

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  24. Paul Randle

    Microhoo Cares

    Depending on the efficacy of the resulting entity, surely it should be either "Microhoo Scares", or "Hoo Cares".

    My vote's on the latter.

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  25. Anonymous Coward
    Alert

    A title is required.

    I'd shorten the logo/name to:

    Hoocares!

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  26. Gabriel S.
    Happy

    MIcrohoo,Like Microhood, or Micro, Who?

    What a name Microhoo? It sounds funny and stupid. Anyway, Yahoo by Microsoft is the best. And you did not include YAHMic! in the choices for the poll. The winner for me is YAHMic!

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