Quaker

No Way Is Microsoft Going to Buy Yahoo For $50B

as absurd as it sounds, I think MSFT is poised for the deal. They've managed to get their float down to 8.6bn shares which means they have 1.4 bn shares to piss away.

MSFT loves printing shares.

Microsoft/Yahoo: The Reasoning Is Sound

Bang! You nailed it. It stuns me how fast Google has moved past these companies. In the case of Microsoft, it's amazing that a company with this much money can be so unsuccessful at executing anything.

In fact, I think this "merger" is the last nail for Microsoft. Now that the gloves are off, All Google has to do is spend a half a billion to upgrade their free web based word processor and spreadsheet, and they can cut MSFT to peices.

It's no secret that Microsoft screwed up their dominance in the browser business (their browser is actually, unusable) and completely misunderstood that internet revenues would be in ads, not sales.

This merger is a pathetic last gasp, especially if they pay for it by printing more shares and hording cash. IMO, shareholders are going to take the stock to $ 20.