Microsoft knows it has a lot of work to do on the search side, and is ready to invest "relatively aggressively" to become a market leader, Chris Liddell, CFO of the software giant this week at a Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium. Part of that strategy is its attempt to takeover Yahoo.
Combining the forces of Microsoft and Yahoo would offer stiff competition to Google, currently the leader in search. Liddell said that Microsoft realizes that customers still want rich client experiences, as well as client and server experiences and services experiences. "From my perspective," Liddell said, "the great benefit of Microsoft is we play and we'll be strong in all of those three experiences.
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