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By Jesse Babson on May. 07, 2007

This is far from a done deal, so let us see if it actually goes through or not. According to the FT, this is still in the very early stages of talks. An argument could be made for the deal, since both parties have been struggling to keep up w/ GOOG. MSFT has pumped over $1B into search and really has no quality product to show, and with GOOG buying out DCLK, the heat is getting turned up by Yahoo. Even if both parties go to work, I think they will be so focused on making the largest acquisition in tech work out that getting the code moved over to the MSFT platform will be a naive thing to focus on early on. I fully expect (assuming it DOES happen) things to be fairly independent on the technical side for a while, though new initiatives, I am sure, will be strong-armed by MSFT to use Studio and .net.

By Manish Mehta on May. 09, 2007

Crazy as it sounds, let us not forget that microsoft does use open source. Despite doing the hackjob deal with novell, microsoft also has a deal with xensource, and xensource gets access to microsoft apis for their vm work.

By Daylon Jackson on Feb. 24, 2008

Well, this might become less of an issue now that microsoft is "threatening" to Opensource some of their protocols :)

By Timothy Crowell on Mar. 27, 2008

I believe Open Source would benefit from it (see http://ostatic.com/158725-blog/yahoo-is-the-reason-for-microsofts-new-op... ), Microsoft would be forced to open up a whole lot more, maybe that's why Yahoo has become even more involved in open source recently.

-Timothy

By an anonymous user on Apr. 23, 2008

open

By Abhinav Bakshi on Apr. 23, 2008

If Microsoft buys yahoo.....ummm let me think

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s8i29785