Steve Ballmer has publicly said that a Microsoft and Yahoo! deal would be good for both sets of shareholders - still, after all this time.

I guess with the world’s markets the way they are, it would make sense to combine forces - even though technically both companies are worth a lot less on the stock exchanges. Roughly the same time that Steve Ballmer made the comment, Microsoft officially announced that the software giant was not in talks with Yahoo’s board… Hey haven’t we heard that before?