Leveraging clouds to make you more efficient: how saas-y are you?

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Microsoft understands the value of clouds. Do you? Why would Microsoft want to pay more than $40 billion dollars for Yahoo!--a big, sick, purple giant? Might it have something to do with Yahoo!'s recognizing the OpenID standard that enables internet users to have one ID and password to enter its network of sites? It could be all about cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS).

On the surface, the merger doesn't appear to make sense, given that Microsoft and Yahoo! seem to have major overlaps in products and services. However, if you were to go to ...

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