Ballmer says Microsoft won't buy to beat Google
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Microsoft doesn't expect to make acquisitions to help the company challenge Google's dominance in the Internet search market, CEO Steve Ballmer said on Monday.
"No, I wouldn't expect it," he said when asked whether acquisitions would be part of the strategy. Microsoft recently agreed a search partnership with Yahoo after a long and unsuccessful struggle to buy the company.
"You'll continue to see us work hard and invest in the marketing and the like, and of course we're trying to get the Yahoo deal through regulatory," he said after a lecture to Britain's CBI business lobby organization.