Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo

This is big! The only impact I can see for Media Center users is that we may, some day in the distant future, see Yahoo services integrated into VMC.

Given Microsoft’s recent history of execution, I am not sure this move is a good thing. 

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"We have great respect for Yahoo, and together, we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers, and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online-services market," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement.