Why cant Micro$oft stick at what they are good at, poor operating systems!
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M$ looking for another way to charge for the Web
If you think all the features and links within Yahoo! will remain free once incorporated into M$, you must still believe in the Tooth Fairy. Nothing M$ does is done without its eye on creating a profit device. Technological innovation because they took down a competitor? I look to see a gradual dismantling of Yahoo! and it's slide to mediocrity while what is good about their web presence gets incorporated into websites already controlled by M$ and we get charged to use it.
Our best defense against this Titan taking control is everyone who feels the web should remain free of this monopolist giant dominating what we can do or use on the web to buy a share of Yahoo! and bury it in our back yards.
M$ still hates the Internet
Bill missed the Internet entirely (read his book from 1994), then tried to kill it (client/server is still The Way), and now is continuing his attempt to buy it.
I suspect that no one at the top of M$ understands the Internet to this day, because they don't understand why human beings like it so much (freedom, free-dom). Another fundamental flaw at the top is Bill's viewpoint of human intelligence outside M$. All the evidence you need is a product called "Microsoft Bob". He thinks we are a bunch of Forrest Gumps compared to him. This leads to continual miscalculations of the market and competitors, and a constant trying to catch up.
The only way M$ has proven they can catch up is via acquisition of product or talent (NT came from the VAX/VMS design team, another "acquisition"). The problem they face now is that the online world moves too quickly for that strategy to work long-term. Web 2.0 and free Office apps will evolve faster than M$ can "react", never mind search and advertising.
If Yahoo can resist (which I doubt if the price gets near their target), it would in fact be a major turning point in history for M$. It will be the first time they failed to buy their way into the present from the past.
20 years from now, we'll see some very interesting studies done on M$ from a sociological standpoint. I hope to still be around to read them.
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