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For over 10 years Microsoft has unsuccessfully competed with Google on the search front. Practically everything they touch online turns to dust. Yahoo! uses opensource throughout some of their webapps so can we expect this to continue after the merger? How about the login process for Flickr? Only recently folks have completely switched to needing a Yahoo! login to access their accounts in Flickr. Could we expect Microsoft to have everyone switch to a passport account?

Steve Ballhammer kept butting in with his “Live is our future” comments during the conference call which says to me that he seeing everything moving bruteforce under one umbrella to that platform. One giant clump of Microsoft online deadspace.