Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion to offer an alternative to Google, it said.
In the words of Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie, "the combination of these two great teams would enable us to jointly deliver a broad range of new experiences to our customers that neither of us would have achieved on our own."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on February 1, 2008 05:04 AM
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