Who Will Join Microsoft in the Portal Wars?

madman writes "In the light of the recent changes in the search war, like the Google/Dell partnership and eBay/Yahoo! alliance, Microsoft is facing a complicated question: Who are they going to ally with? Will they try to face the competition alone?"

"Who are they going to ally with?"

[talkingpaperclip]

"Who are they going to ally with?"

The dark side, obviously.

Re:"Who are they going to ally with?"

[Anonymous Coward]

Son.. er Appl.. oh, wait. That's redundant.

They will all be assimilated...

[midifarm]

Resistance is futile!

One of 2 choices

[Anonymous Coward]

Either Microsoft will join forces with Hotmail, or else MSN will team up with Microsoft for battle.

Domain Squatters

[Professor_UNIX]

Seriously. Microsoft needs to join with domain squatters. Microsoft could totally dominate the domain squatter portal market by integrating their Live search engine into the domain squatters' Yahoo-like categorized site listings and offers to sell you the domain for $X,XXX.

AOL!

[9mm Censor]

I know I would definately BUY vista, if I got like a free trail for AOL. I have been hankering to try that out but cant find those CDs anywhere.

It may seem unlikely...

[minitual]

but Apple/Microsoft would dominate the market!

Re:The Spooks

[dhasenan]

There's always the FBIMSNSAT&TSA. And what about the FBIMSNSAT&TSATF? Now we can get the FBIMSNSAT&TSATFBIMSNSAT&TSA if we want....

Re:Microsoft doesn't partner with folks it assimil

[ozmanjusri]

Who has ever done it and lived to tell the tale?

Satan?