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Google, Yahoo and Microsoft!

Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger 9.0 for Windows Vista establishes rules for instant messaging world, in the case of successful Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo. Without a doubt, Microsoft, and Yahoo will create a valid competitor to Google's search engine and advertising markets. In early February, the Redmond company indicated that it was willing to pay at least $ 44.6 billion in Sunnyvale Internet giant, and that a negative response would not deter it from its course of action.

At the same time, Yahoo and Microsoft will lead to the marriage of one superpower and a monopoly on the web e-mail and instant messaging markets. "Microsoft, as well as Yahoo! just an overwhelming share of instant messaging and Web email accounts. And between them, the two companies operate two of the most heavily-commerce portals on the Internet. Can the combination of the two to use a computer software monopoly unfairly limit the ability of consumers to competitors free access e-mail, instant messaging and Internet services? "asked David Drummond, Google Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer.

The statistics presented in the Internet company comScore figures for the month of December 2007, kindly provided LiveSide, draw a clear picture of the enormous advantages in the audience that a combination between Microsoft and Yahoo will affect Google. The next versions of instant messaging with clients from Redmond and Sunnyvale companies, namely Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger 9.0 for Windows Vista, along with the overall objective of Yahoo Messenger would simply narrow IM market, and not to leave any place Google breathe. Only in the USA, Microsoft and Yahoo to control the combined 41 + million IM audience.

In the USA IM client market, Google is nothing short of a minor with just over half a million users of Google Talk. But this situation is illustrative of the global status of Google Talk, an IM client at a distance lagging far behind Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. At Gmail Web mail market has been able to gather a crowd of more than 20 million work only in the United States but only in the United States, Microsoft and Yahoo together own in the audience of more than 100 million Users with more than 80 million in Sunnyvale Internet giant, and 45 million for the Redmond company.

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