centime - 3:29 pm on Feb 5, 2008 (gmt 0)

would Microsoft really spend all that money on the Yahoo brand, and all the good stuff Yahoo contains,

Then proceed to re write everything, c'mon

Microsoft .net tech is so different that they might as well write everything themselves, from scratch

more likely, the 2 would merge technologies slowly, over many years

They'd probably retain the names as well, an make sure that Yahoo's loyal fan base didn't notice any immediate change to their services

Merger benefits to be gained from operational, none tech, behind the scenes stuff,

You know how much it costs to run a fully loaded head office,,,

Microsoft is betting its future on this, an its quite exiting to see a colossus being so bold