skibum - 11:43 pm on May 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

He said in Tokyo that the company put "a lot of effort" in the talks with Yahoo and has decided the two should pursue "independent paths."

First step is to realize the Internet is not the desktop, second is to figure out what Microsoft is and where it is going and then develop something that could be termed an independent strategy. IMHO they are lost.