Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo

eldavojohn writes "Perhaps it's obvious to you and perhaps you'll be pleasantly surprised by his answer but Gates revealed to CNet why Microsoft needs Yahoo. From his response, "We have a strategy for competing in the search space that Google dominates today, that we'll pursue that we had before we made the Yahoo offer, and that we can pursue without that. It involves breakthrough engineering. We think that the combination with Yahoo would accelerate things in a very exciting way, because they do have great engineers, they have done a lot of great work. So, if you combine their work and our work, the speed at which you can innovate and get things done is just dramatically more rapid. So, it's really about the people there that want to join in and create a better search, better portal for a very broad set of customers. That's the vision that's behind saying, hey, wouldn't this be a great combination.""

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No risk then...

[gweihir]

Since MS has never made any significant engineering breakthroughs, why should they now? Everything they did so far was aquire or copy (i.e. steal) technology. This also means that without Yahoo, they have not the faintest chance. Good. This will ensure high-quality platform-independent web-search will remain available.