On this day,  Microsoft decided to cut Vista’s prices to boost sales and ponders buying Xobni and a small startup wants to make programmers obsolete. Ouch.

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Today’s news consisted of Microsoft Launching Something that peeps into space and make some people weep, Google showing its Sites to everyone, Windows 2008 being launched and the EU showing to Microsoft who is the real daddy.

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So what happened today… the EEE makes Sony feel dizzy, Microsoft is pushing for IE8 and crashes Live, Facebook and Social networking websites adoption falters and Google buys some wires.

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On this date, Gettyimages was sold, Microsoft was slashing HD DVD drive prices, MetaRAM was grabbing the headlines and Intel was going in Hex Drive.

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Today’s edition of a life in the Techmeme River, a snapshot in technology.

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It is the most talked about merger and acquisition of the century. I haven’t witnessed as much buzz since the Merger of Compaq and HP back in 2002.

This morning, Microsoft made an unsolicited bid for Yahoo!, the one time darling of the internet and competitor to both Microsoft and Google, for the princely sum of $44.6 billion, which is slightly more than what Microsoft gets as income in one year.

Still, it will be uber interesting to see what Google and how Wall Street will react in the medium to long term.

So here are a few headlines…
Breaking news : Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share

The letter that Microsoft sent to Yahoo!’s Board of Directors

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