First Microsoft gives Yahoo a deadline of this weekend to begin negotiations or face a hostile tackover, then reveals that maybe they don’t want Yahoo anyways.
This is beginning to look like one of my high school dating relationships.
Suffice it to say that Yahoo beating its projected numbers this week throws a new wrinkle in things. [...]

Like a soap opera, things are heating up between Microsoft and Yahoo, complete with threats, machinations, and denials. As things stand right now, I see five possible outcomes.
1) Nothing happens.Very unlikely. Yahoo’s numbers aren’t there right now, and an attempt to stay the course would create considerable unrest amongst Yahoo shareholders.
2) Microsoft purchases Yahoo in [...]