I just can't help but laugh when I run into this article. CNet sure have some thoughtful and creative editors.

As people are coming up more key words regarding this event. For me, the Microsoft-Yahoo news can be tagged: aggressive, predatory, desperate, lame.

Remember the days when they were aggressive? They were labeled predatory. The result? They killed off Netscape just like that. Many would hate Microsoft for what they did. But strategically, that's a classic successful case of the strategy "taking away the firewood from under the cauldron". People might say they hated Microsoft, but they didn't hate their free "soup" and they didn't care to supply Netscape with the good and old firewood they badly needed, leaving their cauldron cold.

There may be no need to debate on if the Yahoo Cauldron, which is obviously losing steam, actually worth $44.5 billion. Or if the two teams, each failed to compete with Google, could end up even worse when combined as manifested by many historical combinations. Not to say how users might react to this desperate move -- maybe they'll abandon both and go take a sip of the Google soup. It just made people chuckle on how even Microsoft could be so hopeless against Google.

Maybe it's not a coincidence when Mr. Gates are calling for a Kinder Capitalism, Microsoft is acting like a behaved competitor to Google. Sure Google is a colossus in comparison with Netscape. But sure it's obvious where Google gets their firewood.

It certainly seems, the more aggressive, the smarter. When you're desperate, you tend to make lame decisions.

Here is the story by the way: Microsoft-Yahoo the mother of all clusterbombs.