NYT does a follow up story on talks between Microsoft and AOL, and besides the usual details we’ve already covered in the posts below, an interesting point: Microsoft offered to sell its MSN portal and dial-up subscriber business both to AOL and to Yahoo…While Yahoo considered and quickly rejected the proposal, Time Warner expressed interest…Microsoft is trying to focus its Internet operations on its developing Web search product rather than its Web portal and Internet access business, which it no longer sees as strategically important.
Not that it comes as a surprise, but the biggest casualty if any of this happens will be the MSN portal…
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