Microsoft, Yahoo ... finally marry

[muckshifter]

The Microhoo concept has been reduced from a giant cloud of uncertainty hanging over both companies to merely a complicated partnership between two rivals with Google as a common foe. The range of possibilities for Microsoft and Yahoo, which ran all the way from nothing to Yahoo disappearing altogether, has been pruned back to a much more manageable scope.

Nobody will notice any difference immediately from the outside. First comes regulatory scrutiny, with the companies hoping for approval in early 2010. But already, the deal provides a framework that should make it easier for the companies to establish their new identities.

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[nivrip]

A marriage made in heaven? Or will they just live together?

Let's hope that they will be happy together and have lots of healthy offspring.

Or will it all end up in the divorce courts?

 

[Ian]

My enemies enemy is my friend and all that

I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out, as better competition can only be a good thing (I would say more competition, but I don't think Bing/Yahoo are anywhere near google at the moment).