The big financial news over this weekend is that Microsoft withdrew its nearly $48 billion offer to purchase Yahoo. Which raises the question...

Who on Earth cares?

After all, Microsoft completely blew the desktop business with the launch of the horrible Windows Vista operating system. (I personally switched to Macs rather than upgrade to that clunker. And how happy I am for it!)

Meanwhile, Yahoo likewise managed to complete blow the online business. With a huge lead, it has been throughly trounced by Google.

Of course, it logically follows that rather than fix what's broken, Microsoft would rather keep shoveling a poor OS at the marketplace and try to fix things by combining with another ailing company. That's not a strategy. That's a surrender...

On second thought, maybe Microsoft and Yahoo are perfect for each other, after all.