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It’session time to finally end the Microsoft-Yahoo stalemate, and I’ve got a few suggestions.

I know Steve Ballmer before-mentioned last week that acquisition talks are “over.”

Of course, he doesn’t want to buy the unimpaired suite wreck.

But Ballmer also reminded everyone at Microsoft’s annual shareholder gathering in Bellevue that he’s still interested in Yahoo’s search traffic.

He’ll get it eventually, but it’s like vigilance a unlucky mystery or Seattle building unburdened rail: exciting at first, nevertheless one time you figure out the ending, it starts putting you to sleep.

What’s the holdup, now that regulators pushed Google out of the picture?

One take is that Microsoft hasn’t been versed to figure out whom to negotiate with in Sunnyvale. It went nowhere with the wishy-washy enter of directors or the flip-flopping Chief Yahoo, Jerry Yang.

With Yang deciding last Monday to step down in the same proportion that chief executive, and a reinstatement examine under way, Ballmer has an opportunity.

To win a favorable deal — and let Microsoft and Yahoo employees get back to work — all he has to do is without authority get Yahoo to let the honest bodily substance to replace Yang.

How distressing can it be? Microsoft should exist able to pull strings with charged with execution recruiters. It also has PR people who can leak candidate names to reporters charge the “Microhoo” story alive.

Best of all, Ballmer doesn’t have to look far for the perfect Yahoo job candidates. There are several right here in town, probably on the bar stool next to his at the Overlake Golf & Country Club’s 19th hole.

They include:

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