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04/07/08 - 10:42 AM EDT
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Within a few sentences, we have Ballmer's negotiation strategy set side-by-side with Yahoo!'s options:
"Some in Yahoo's camp view Mr. Ballmer's latest move as a negotiating strategy, and they believe there is still time for Yahoo to pursue alternatives to an acquisition by the software giant, say people familiar with the matter. One of the people says some members of Yahoo's management would prefer not to sell to Microsoft and are still looking for another deal that would allow Yahoo to avoid that."Anyhow, one of The Business Press Maven's guiding principles is not to compound a mistake by repeating it. And I did not believe Microsoft would make this bid originally, so we'll see whether I'm posed to double dip on mistakes here. But if Yahoo! truly has options right now and is participating at this point in a fight of equals with Microsoft, I'll eat my hat without condiments.
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