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Really? I'm surprised they didn't go to a full $300! ;)
If Microsoft wants to compete against the growing Google, they had better strategically acquire somebody fast because their MSN isn't the best and they rely too much on revenue streams from their software/OS. What if Google were to come out with their own OS and their own Office? Oh boy!
Good twitter Pete.
http://haochen.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/if-micr...
Isn't that like saying, "Xerox needs to improve its consumer photo printing tactics if it wants to beat HP and Kodak"?
Microsoft is not a search and advertising business! The Yahoo! acquisition was not (primarily) about search, and if a Facebook acquisition were in the works, it wouldn't be about search either!
Microsoft is a platform company at heart. What they're really looking for is a way to make themselves the dominant platform of the web. They tried to do that from the back end, by proprietary technology standards, without as much success as they'd like. Now they're trying to do it from the front-end; Yahoo!'s strategy of making themselves the "starting point of the web" would have been perfect for Microsoft's platform goals.