Part of the fallout from the past month’s game between Microsoft and Yahoo! is the guessing game that’s happening in various parts of the blogosphere now, like Kara Swisher’s BoomTown post this morning which entertains (and quickly dismisses) the possibility that Microsoft would look at making a serious bid to buy Facebook.
While owning Facebook might seem like an attractive idea on some levels (getting more than your foot in the door in social media, for example, or having a net property that doesn’t rely on Google for a significant chunk of its traffic), I think it’s a far better deal for Microsoft to leave that one alone.
Google isn’t likely to buy Facebook out anytime soon, and their initial valuation bumped the price tag up so high (~$15 billion) that there are unlikely to be other companies willing to put that much cash on the table for something that, frankly, isn’t showing a lot of revenue yet.
No, I think that a bid for Facebook is firmly off the table at least until Facebook starts actually making money.
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