Microsoft’s president of the Platforms and Services Division sent a note to Microsoft employees about the Yahoo deal. From his perspective, they are just waiting for the deal to close.

Henry Blodget at alleyinsider.com did a great job of decoding the e-mail, it’s an interesting read. Summary

* Looking forward to beginning negotiations with Yahoo soon
* Will begin detailed integration planning as soon as Yahoo caves
* Can’t actually integrate until deal closes (still 2nd half of this year)
* Lots of people will be canned, but we will try to find other jobs for the good ones
* Yahoo’s brand is strong, so MSN and other Microsoft Internet brands toast.
* Yahoo doesn’t use Windows–but we’ll quickly fix that
* We’ll probably keep some of Yahoo’s buildings in Silicon Valley
* Don’t schmooze with your Yahoo friends: Until Jerry caves, they are enemies
* Now stop daydreaming and get back to work.

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