Microsoft Makes $42Billion Bid for Yahoo

Executives of Microsoft hope to topple Google but we don't think this is going to be enough to do it. Microsoft is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet search leader. Microsoft's attempt to buy Yahoo, spelled out in an unsolicited offer announced last Friday, shows just how much Google threatens the world's largest software maker's grip on how people interact with computers.