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I’m wondering if this is an admission by Microsoft that it is not an Internet company, and that by sucking up Yahoo (GN) that it might be able to get close. It might work – thinking that this way the new company would have some fingers in each pie that Google has. But it’s all rumor still (update, here is the letter).

If it does happen, I wonder what the impact is going to be on services like Flickr, Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Mail. The latter two have mirrored services in Microsoft and many users have gone to Yahoo because the don’t like the Microsoft service. But I guess that might become a mute point. My big wonder? What about Flickr? If MS wants some good will, it should make Flickr Pro free (I wish), but otherwise it might do well to leave it be… but then again, who knows.