Microsoft bought Yahoo, according to new Microsoft book
Remember that brief moment this spring when everyone was saying
Microsoft-Yahoo was a sure thing? That was when ZDNet blogger
Mary Jo Foley must have put the finishing touches on her new
book, Microsoft 2.0. On page 4, Foley writes: "This is a book on
Microsoft's next chapter. It's going to be an unpredictable one,
as Microsoft's purchase of Yahoo earlier this year makes
evident." Committing the purchase to ink on paper was foolish of
Foley, no matter what the odds were on Microsoft buying Yahoo,
since even a clean deal would likely have taken a year to close.
The back cover also manages to misspell the URL of Robert
Scoble's Scobleizer blog. Old Microsoft hands like Foley know to
wait until the third version of any Microsoft product, since it
takes the software giant that long to get things right. Sounds
like readers should do the same for her book.  Closeups of the
pages, from a tipster:  Microsoft bought Yahoo, according to new
Microsoft bookS