Spotted in Wired Top Stories

With 1Q earnings from both companies out and nobody blinking as a key deadline passed over the weekend, Microsoft appears to be no closer to buying Yahoo than when it made its $44.6 billion bid nearly three months ago.

If Microsoft is very lucky, their management will be spared the consequences of this extraordinarily stupid idea. The two companies would not mesh at all - either from a technology or a culture standpoint. It would be a large scale version of what happened with ParcPlace-Digitalk, and let me tell you - that went very, very badly.