The Real Message in Microsoft's Conciliatory Moves

One of the most obvious takeaways from Microsoft’s pending multibillion-dollar bid for Yahoo is that the always-connected world is a lot more complicated place for the boys from Redmond to navigate than the quaint old world of desktop office applications. Inherent in the bid is an admission that Microsoft has failed, despite billions of dollars of investment, to gain significant traction in online search and advertising. So now it’s trying to buy its way in, targeting the only company that’s had any substantial success competing with Google in search.

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