Microsoft President on Micro-Hoo: We Can Do It - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

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Mr. Johnson also said that one of the significant integration challenges facing the companies, their different technology infrastructures, was not insurmountable. Microsoft has already acquired companies based on open-source technologies, he said, and it hasn’t always felt a need to migrate those companies to Microsoft technology. “We would work closely with Yahoo! engineers to make pragmatic platform and integration methodology decisions as appropriate, prioritizing above all how those decisions would impact customers,” he said.

Microsoft President on Micro-Hoo: We Can Do It - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog