Wow… if this deal goes through… What’s it like to live in a world of Google vs. Windows Live/Yahoo? How would the combined company merge redundent services, like Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail? Or Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger? How would the online world evolve if this deal happens? Hmmm……

Yahoo’s official press release
Microsoft’s official press release

Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
Microsoft Is Building a Spaceship Out of Spare Parts
An Offer Yahoo Can’t Refuse
Microsoft’s Yahoo Bid: What’s Next
How Microsoft Could Go Hostile
Deal That May Create More, Not Less, Competition
Yahoo Offer Is Strategy Shift for Microsoft
Flickr Users Consider Their Potential Microsoft Overlords

News Corp. Scrambles To Bid For Yahoo
Ballmer’s Internal E-Mail to The Troops Explaining the Yahoo Acquisition
What Would a Combined Microsoft-Yahoo Look Like?
Microsoft-Yahoo: What Will Stay And What Will Go?