Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Why Microsoft Will Sit Out the Yahoo-AOL Dance (and Bide Its Time to Capture Search)
While a lot of analysts and pundits have suggested that Microsoft would or should surely jump into the fray–now that AOL and Yahoo are talking merger more seriously, and especially since Yahoo’s stock has dropped in the $14 range–don’t count on it.
In fact, in what has to be the most Zen-like approach it has ever had, sources close to Microsoft’s thinking actually hope that the talks to combine the Time Warner unit and Yahoo will work out, which could give the software giant another shot at nabbing the search business from the pair.
