[GingisK]

What ever happened to anti-trust legislation? IBM and the Bell System were both ripped to shreds of much lesser infractions.

[FostersExport]

That’s what I was wondering. I relieve couldn’t beleive that Microsoft would think they’d be allowed to do this bid. Maybe they know more than I.

[Publius Valerius]

What ever happened to anti-trust legislation?

People woke up and realized that it was a stupid law.

[untrained skeptic]

Microsoft isn't a monopoly in the internet search engine business, and buying Yahoo wouldn't give them monopoly power either.

Unless there is documented evidence of Microsoft illegally tying their OS to their search engine in a way that prevents Google from competing (which would appear to be contradicted by Google's dominance in the market), anti-trust legislation wouldn't seem to apply.