Any Yahoo acquisition plans Microsoft might have entertained are now dead, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft is moving on and looking to invest more in search, a business Ballmer categorizes as a two-horse race between Microsoft and Google. - Any Yahoo acquisition plans Microsoft might have entertained are now dead, said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO. A Yahoo merger would have helped Microsoft's bid to overtake Google in search, Ballmer said, but with the $40 billion bill for Yahoo now off the books, Microsoft is moving on and look... ...