Microsoft CEO on Yahoo: We Should Not Have Two of Everything

With the acquisition of Sidekick-maker Danger and the proposed bid for Yahoo, Microsoft is looking at taking on a whole lot of non-Windows technology, CNET News blogger Ina Fried writes. So it makes sense that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking at the Mix ’08 conference, said that, “assuming Yahoo ever starts returning Microsoft’s phone calls,” Microsoft will choose to go with Microsoft-developed services in some areas and Yahoo-developed ones in other areas.

“We should not have two of everything,” Ballmer said.

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