This does not make sense (Score 1)

Look at it is this way: Yahoo is already using a relatively open, web-based strategy to make money. Meanwhile, Microsoft has poured hundeds of millions of dollars into MSN, first as a way of binding Windows-using Internet users to Windows even more tightly (which didn't make money), and then more recently, making steps of not requiring Windows to get interesting functionality (and that still might not make money). Seems to me Yahoo should go it alone, and if MSN's new strategy fails, just hire away the good engineers working on the new-style MSN.