I assume if Microsoft does manage to buy Yahoo! that they will leave it as it is initially and work behind the scenes to improve the company rather than absorbing them into the MSN network. If they differentiate Yahoo! mail and Live mail/Hotmail enough they could have two separate services which offer slightly different options to corner a little more of the market than they are at the moment by competing with each other. Or at least that's what I'm guessing they'll do.
Some integration between the logins for each service wouldn't go amiss. And in particular a combination of the services offered by Yahoo! messenger and MSN would be great. MSN is the best IM service by far, but Yahoo! has some great extras bundled with their IM program as well which would be nice to have on MSN. I particularly like the music/online radio service built into Yahoo! messenger.
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