Yahoo will be Microsoft's

This is my prediction. I've been thinking about this for quite a long time, and I have enough confidence to predict that Yahoo will accept Microsoft's proposal. Why? So much has already been told out there - in many of the most highly respectable sites on the Internet and even newspapers all over the world - whose main ideas are completely opposite to each other, and therefore I have a theory of my own about the outcome of this "billion dollar game".
Yahoo is doing like Oh come on Microsoft... you have a great chance to take us over and you won't like Google screwing us all... Maybe I should show you some signs of being interested on some "News Corp" and get a higher bid from you... Come on... I will start saying my employees will fear of being fired and dislike your proposal... I even did my best to raise our stock price while yours was dropping...

Seriously... it's a game between both companies. I've never heard so much about Yahoo these past 2 months... I bet many kids out there never even heard about Yahoo in the first place, since we're all so much used to Google anyway... Google takes pride in what they do and I don't believe they really need Yahoo so much... Microsoft has a golden chance to enter this new market...
More updates are sure to come!

Update (22 Feb, 2008):
Bill Gates made recently the following statements: "We have a strategy for competing in the search space that Google dominates today, that we'll pursue that we had before we made the Yahoo offer, and that we can pursue without that. It involves breakthrough engineering. We think that the combination with Yahoo would accelerate things in a very exciting way, because they do have great engineers, they have done a lot of great work. So, if you combine their work and our work, the speed at which you can innovate and get things done is just dramatically more rapid. So, it's really about the people there that want to join in and create a better search, better portal for a very broad set of customers. That's the vision that's behind saying, hey, wouldn't this be a great combination."
Does this support my opinion that they need each other as they share a common vision and ideologies, and a same wish to fight Google "threat"?