I don't want to comment on the story because I really don't care for ads, but I keep wondering why do people think that the result of Microsoft+Yahoo merger wou

I don't want to comment on the story because I really don't care for ads, but I keep wondering why do people think that the result of Microsoft+Yahoo merger would be stronger than two separate companies? What stops Microsoft from successfully competing with Google starting right now? They freaking OWN 67% of the browser market and 94% of OS market, so they own the address bar and default search setting in nearly every PC sold! How much more leverage do you need??? And yet it's not enough to fight Google off - people keep changing the default search and default homepage setting to http://google.com http://google.com in every brand-new installation of IE. Why would you want to help that company? And how was Yahoo supposed to help them? This isn't the auto-industry where mergers help you out with sharing manufacturing plans, part bins, "platforms" and dealer networks. This kind of shit is FREE on the Internet: all you have to do is to build a superior product, it takes seconds for customers to switch. Message to Microsoft: simply start to innovate again with your engineering, just like you used to against IBM, Lotus and Netscape, forget all that shady marketing BS and half-assed mergers with losers.