Um, this from a company that is laying people off and trying to "find a new direction" to reinvigorate the company?

I think 40B is about 10B too much to be honest. And most of the world was kind of stunned that MS would spend that kind of money for something they don't really "need".

Give it 6 months and they won't be worth half that 40billion...

So who else has that kind of money laying around besides Google? Are we going to see the Chevron-Texaco-Yahoo search engine? Beggars can't be choosers, Yahoo.