Just a quick post on this Monday, sandwiched in between Super Bowl Sunday and Super Tuesday. It's very interesting how things have changed in regard to Microsoft. The company was once considered the great big bully on the block. These days, even though Microsoft still retains many of those qualities, the proposed merger with Yahoo has some thinking that it would be a good thing to have a challenger to Google in the search/online ad market.
If this Yahoo-Microsoft deal goes through, one of the most interesting pieces will be whether Microsoft decides to challenge the open source software piece of Google's business. Google has had some success with its open source applications and that area is only growing as users become more comfortable with it. Microsoft, of course, built itself on the sale of its proprietary software, which has the overwhelming share of the market.
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