Microsoft to buy Yahoo?
First, I said this would happen in my 2006 Year in Review, but it looks like Microsoft will be purchasing Yahoo for between $50-60 billion dollars. This is a good move for both involved. I have really been noticing Yahoo being more and more open to .NET developers in the past few months, which is the first step to getting things integrated and transitioned in my opinion. They even had a session or two at Mix this week and could not help but wonder just how far off this merger would be.
The two have great platforms to develop against and I think from a developer perspective this will prove very adventageous to us as .NET developers because the APIs of both will be easier to work with and the information we will have access to will be unbelievable. Google will really have a strong competitor on their door steps too, if you look at combining the two market shares of search traffic.
Look for this to most likely be officially announced within the next week or two. I am excited as a developer, just behind the Silverlight stuff this week. I mean what a week for .NET developers!