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Yahoo/Microsoft marraige ∞

Dowry offered – $44.6 Billion.

• Knee-deep in the dead – John Siracusa ponders on the whole situation.
• Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo – John Gruber predicts the future for Yahoo’s current products if the deal does go through.
• Microsoft and Yahoo’s shotgun marriage – BBC’s Tim Webber offers a more business oriented analysis of the possible acquisition.

Personally, I hope the deal does not go through because I agree with Siracusa that:

…Yahoo, for all its problems, is just one good CEO and a few years away from a reemergence as the strongest real competitor to Google. A takeover by anyone—but especially Microsoft—makes the hopes of such a recovery quite dim.