Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo

[Noreen]

Would this also include Yahoo Mail?

Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares. .............

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7222114.stm

[Rik]

I would have thought they would have a unified mail service as a result, Noreen, I can't see the mail business being viable as a separate entity.

[Noreen]

Oh dear! I've a yahoo.uk mail account and it's been fine. 

[Rik]

Time to move to Google?

[Malc]

Just leave google alone and we'll be happy

[Simon]

I wouldn't be suprised if Google try to purchase Microsoft at some point!

[Rik]

There's something that we'd have all fallen about at one time - but now stop to think when it might happen. If the move to Windows 7 doesn't get the takeup they need, and if more businesses switch to Linux/Open Office, it could happen within a few years.

[MoHux]

No chance!  They would just re-work Linux, call it 'Doors', and be back in business. 

[Rik]

Fair point, Mo. Though that could lead to a version called Open Doors, I guess.