I hope MS won’t succeed in taking over Yahoo. I’m very afraid what will happen to Flickr and something like YSlow/the performancing group within Yahoo. Their attitude is just so different from MS, I do not believe they fit together at all.

I’m concerned about those things as well, but I think Microsoft would realize that changing too much could just push users over to Google. I think they would leave things alone for the most part.

I’m also worried about the power that MS will then get in the email & instant messaging world. Gmail might seem big, compared to the Hotmail/Live Mail/Yahoo Mail combination it’s tiny. Must be interesting for the antitrust agency to look at as well.

If MS just wants to have the search engine/advertising technology, then please let them split the company up!