Microsoft says:

"Any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo!"

The emphasis is mine, but come on. Are they even trying anymore? Or was this press release written by a PR intern who was simply unaware that Microsoft's share of the OS market is over 90%?

I'm writing this on a PC running Windows XP (though I run Linux on my desktop at home). When my wife gets her new laptop (an Apple) later this month, we'll be purchasing Microsoft Office for it. I'm not a Microsoft fan, but I see no sense in shunning their every product.

I just can't understand the sort of hubris that it takes for a company like Microsoft to say something like this about their competitors. The blind eye that the federal government has repeatedly turned to Microsoft's anticompetitive practices is not without some reason, and reasonable minds differ on whether OS monopolies are as bad as other kinds of monopolies.

But this is just silly. And it's really hard to parody a company that parodies itself so effectively.