Microsoft expansion may be a lesser evil
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
February 2, 2008

WASHINGTON -- After their long-running antitrust battles with Microsoft Corp., the last thing U.S. and European regulators want is for the software giant to get even bigger.
But as Google Inc. extends its dominance over the Internet, regulators are likely to view a more powerful Microsoft as the lesser of two evils and greenlight the proposed Yahoo deal, analysts said Friday.
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