Microhoo

If it manages to win over Yahoo, the combined entity (already dubbed Microhoo on the Net) would be another behemoth, not only controlling e-mail and instant messenger (over 90 per cent share), but also standing significantly taller in the fight against Google.

Facing the Possibility of Microhoo!

Yahoo's systems are based heavily on Open Source. If Microsoft keeps them that way, it will lose credibility with customers.

MS is desperate to find something new that others might play catchup to, with little success. Their approach has almost always been claim jumping ("A market without competition, isn't."). That is hardly working for them anymore (witness Zune, Microhoo).

You made a really, really bad move getting in bed with microhoo, and it will cost you in the end.