Makes you wonder about some of Microsoft's undisclosed intentions when Yahoo! was a suitor[1] given what happened when/after Skype[2] entered Microsoft's fold. Though the credible timeline[3] given suggests that Yahoo! may have already been forced to capitulate.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo!#Acquisition_a...

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-co...

[3] http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/07/microsoft-has-fed-p...

Uh what do you have against remote working that you're switching to Yahoo just cause they banned it?

Even if you don't like their products, almost everyone is in the target market for one of their products. Mail, News, Groups, etc...

I use yahoo for groups (nearly every item of old hardware has a yahoo group[0]) and for auctions on japanese electronics, as ebay never really caught on in japan. I get good use out of yahoo finance aswell.

[0] hyperbole

Improving the work environment, as only one example.

Probably the biggest improvement: getting the point across to a huge organization that they're not content just sitting back with things as usual. Yahoo had become the behemoth that plodded along, one step after another. Someone needed to come in and whip the company into shape, from the Veeps on down. If nothing else, she's woken the company up. And that right there is something big.

For what it's worth, their iOS weather app is absolutely fantastic and I believe is now being aped or outright used by Apple in iOS7.

Small things, but it is a very nice user experience if what you're after is the weather.