Microsoft's 47.4 billion dollar bid was already for more than Yahoo's worth. I don't think that MS is going to be able to take Yahoo with anything less than an obscene offer. If Microsoft was smart, they would just take things to the shareholders, like they threatened in May. Some Yahoo executives don't want to sell (seemingly for any amount), but most shareholders were pretty pissed off when Yahoo snubbed its nose at 47.4 billion. There already should have been a "hostile takeover", months ago... Think of it this way, if you owned a thousand shares worth 19 dollars a piece, and someone wanted to buy em' for 31 dollars each, wouldn't you be pissed if someone screwed up the deal? Yahoo is only 9% of the search market, and Google's probably going to acquire doubleclick. Who in their right mind thinks Yahoo is worth over 47.4 billion?