"Make friends with the devil, until you get to the other side", a saying goes, which means that even the strangest alliances are worth making in order to achieve a certain goal.
It's no longer a secret that both MSN and Yahoo would like to see Google dead and buried so they can divide their online ad business between them. The rumors appeared over the last weeks
pointed out that Microsoft would like to shake hands with AOL, but it seems that things didn't quite come out as planned, so MSN concocted another surprise alliance.
For the first time in history, it seems that the IM clients, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger, will interoperate.
The first target seems to be AOL's IM client, but since it's collaboration time, who knows what other wonders we will see from MSN and Yahoo?
When it comes to searching, both portals are behind Google, but each of them are offering more services than what the Internet search engine is capable to offer.
MSN hasn't been very active lately, but from the services' and the technological acquisitions' point of view, it's hard to believe that Microsoft has given up the idea of dominating the Internet. The only change in the Redmond empire's plans is to search for allies and Yahoo is not, in any case, a Google fan.
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