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MicroHoo: Good or Bad for Open Source? - Community - ComputerworldUK
"How these positives and negatives work out in practice will emerge in due course. Meanwhile, one thing is certain: the big loser in this deal is neither Microsoft nor open source, but Yahoo, which has effectively become a media company, leaving the Internet technology side in Microsoft's hands. In that respect, it's a sad day for everyone that cares about the past, present and future of the online world."
Yahoo! Weather
"The Yahoo! Weather RSS feed enables you to get up-to-date weather information for your location. You can save this feed in My Yahoo! or your favorite feed aggregator, or incorporate the RSS data into your own web site or client application. The Yahoo! Weather RSS feed is a dynamically-generated feed based on zip code or Location ID."
Pursuit of Yahoo Shows Microsoft Needs a Franchise - New York Times
"Two weeks after walking away from takeover talks with Yahoo, Microsoft made clear on Sunday that it still needed to create an Internet powerhouse that could rival Google — and that its interest in Yahoo had not waned."
How Google’s Checkbook Stymied Microsoft - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
"As it turned out, Google was very much the spoiler in the deal. But its most effective weapon was not threats or coercion, but its very effective, and unconventional, use of its own checkbook."
Reality Check | Ephraim Schwartz | InfoWorld | Swallowing Yahoo may make Microsoft want to take a nap | April 7, 2008 12:43 PM | Ephraim Schwartz
"The times have changed and if Microsoft is to succeed it needs to become innovative and nimble. Of course it needs to be a relevant player with Web 2.0 applications but it needs even more than that. It needs to be the pioneer in the next big thing rather than playing catch up with the current big thing."
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