Stephen Foley: Microsoft: Once bitten, but still not Yahoo shy
Outlook So Microsoft is working on a new bid for Yahoo, in conjunction with private equity? Doesn't it learn? It had a lucky escape in 2008 and has done better out of a search-engine partnership instead.
It did not need to buy a piece of Yahoo's collapsing web publishing business then, and it does not now.
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