I am thoroughly convinced Microsoft will botch up this acquisition, but that's only because it's usually a safe bet that Microsoft will botch up anything internet related. They just don't get it.<p>This article is based largely on the assumption that priority number one will be to port everything to Windows and I think this is an absurd assumption to make.<p>Are we to believe that Microsoft is willing to risk throwing away $100M+ in order to migrate this thing to Windows?<p>Don't forget that Microsoft ran Hotmail on Unix for years. I imagine by the time they got around to porting it to Windows they were about ready for an upgrade anyway. (Plus, Windows was finally getting to the point where a project like that could even be considered.)<p>My guess is the meat of this deal was about bringing in some new IP and some bright engineers- not about running some search engine that almost no one has heard of. In that case, the platform it runs on is largely irrelevant.