Farhad Manjoo calls MSFT out

With all the bloggy talk over the weekend about the attempted MSFT-Yahoo deal, Farhad Manjoo (of salon.com) asks a really good question:

Microsoft, why do you think this is a good idea? How ever do you think it will work? ... For instance, take this problem: Microsoft is wedded to Windows and Office, its cash cows. In order to succeed, though, it needs to innovate around those monopolies, to develop applications that can compete with "cloud computing" initiatives like Google Apps -- but that may also present competition to Windows and Office. How will a combined company deal with that basic dilemma -- that Microsoft may need to cannibalize Windows to save itself -- any better than MS has on its own?

I'll let him handle it from now on, I think...