Thank goodness Microsoft finally saw the light; they have told Yahoo that the deal is off, and that they are no longer interested in merging.

The travel angle here? Microsoft have a history of messing things up when they buy parts of other companies, and they probably would have done the same here, severely impacting things like Yahoo maps and Yahoo mail.

Now they can go their separate ways, Microsoft trying to catch up with Google (and failing), and Yahoo trying to make sense of their 100’s of different products (and failing).