Here’s your chance to buy into Microsoft Corp. for a measly few bucks – a beautiful poster of Mr. Bill Gates! Okay, you really can bid on Gates, but the real point of this post is to highlight Microsoft’s offer to acquire Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion. That kind of a number makes me reminisce about an Austin Powers scene: “one trillion kajillion doooollars.”

Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer wrote the following in a letter to Yahoo’s board of directors: ”…can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers.” Aw, what a nice guy. I’m sure he hasn’t even thought of the fact that his income will quadruple. And I’m quite sure he’s supporting this acquisition in the name of philanthropy. Treat the John Q. Public with a littel decency and talk about some truths instead of just the PR sugar. And won’t this bring on some monopoly issues?

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