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Remember that eleventh-hour choice — when Microsoft opted not to buy Yahoo? Bear in mind how so many pundits portrayed CEO Steve Ballmer;s walking away as a fireable offense?What a difference a few months make.Now Ballmer is being called prescient and smart to have “dodged the (Yahoo) bullet.”Financial madmoneyman Jim Cramer on October 13:“Microsoft (stock) shouldn;t be that cheap, given the fact that it;s got a powerful franchise and how they dodged the bullet with Yahoo,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007!“A quote in a Bloomberg story from today also paints Ballmer;s choice to walk away as a positive:“Ballmer ‘might be the luckiest guy in the software industry,microsoft Office 2010 License,; said analyst Charles Di Bona at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York. ‘One of the guys here just looked at Yahoo;s share price and said to me,Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key, “Nice miss by Microsoft.”‘It will be interesting to see how Ballmer is judged (again) if Microsoft ends up rebidding for all or part of Yahoo (which,Office Professional 2010, as I post this,Office 2010 Pro Key, is trading now around $13.50) ….I have to say (as I did at the start of this year) that I still don;t see why Microsoft would buy all of Yahoo — even at firesale prices. And I also still don;t see why Yahoo would sell off its search business….Do you think there are enough assets left at Yahoo — on the search side of the house or otherwise — for Ballmer & Co. to reconsider?