In an interview with the Financial Times, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect RayOzzie said that Microsoft will proceed carefully with any kind of integration, due to both technology and culture differences between the companies.
Earlier in the week, during his keynote address, Chief Software Architect RayOzzie spoke about how search was driving community-based innovation in the software industry and how the change was affecting online advertising.
Speaking at the announcement early this morning RayOzzie, Chief Software Architect at MS, said "Social platform will become a new entry point," and called Yahoo pioneers in this field. It's pretty obvious that this is all about the ad dollars.
This time it's Microsoft's CTO, RayOzzie, with a few thoughts that were published internally and seen by News.com. We should've been leaders with all our web properties in harnessing the potential of Ajax, following our pioneering work in OWA...