usually means the end user product gets worse, or vanishes altogether

What will all of that garbage mean to the end user of yahoo products - will their e-mail and geocities and groups services remain as they are (which are fine and don't need any alterations).

Microsoft has hotmail already, AOL had some kind of free e-mail that ceased operating correctly & I never bothered finding out if they ever repaired it; google has e-mail and blogspaces.....what concerns me is that whoever wants to own yahoo will change those services mentioned, or remove them.