<p>"Yahoo! doesn't have to do anything with Microsoft about anything," Bartz said at a conference of technology analysts.<br /><br />"Yahoo! actually has a bright, bright future, probably cleaner and simpler future without thinking there's any Microsoft connection," she said. "We'd be better off if we'd never heard the word Microsoft.<br /><br />"Forget about the Microsoft stuff, it's honestly not that relevant," she said.<br /><br />Microsoft tried last year to buy Yahoo! for USD 47.5 billion in a vain effort to merge online resources to better battle Google, which rules more than 60 per cent of the lucrative US online search market.<br /><br />Yahoo!'s share of the market is about 20 per cent and Microsoft trails with slightly more than eight per cent, according to April figures from industry tracking firms.<br /><br />Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has repeatedly expressed interest in a deal with Yahoo! but Bartz said that too much attention was being paid to the issue and Yahoo! was doing fine on its own. </p>
<p>"Yahoo! doesn't have to do anything with Microsoft about anything," Bartz said at a conference of technology analysts.<br /><br />"Yahoo! actually has a bright, bright future, probably cleaner and simpler future without thinking there's any Microsoft connection," she said. "We'd be better off if we'd never heard the word Microsoft.<br /><br />"Forget about the Microsoft stuff, it's honestly not that relevant," she said.<br /><br />Microsoft tried last year to buy Yahoo! for USD 47.5 billion in a vain effort to merge online resources to better battle Google, which rules more than 60 per cent of the lucrative US online search market.<br /><br />Yahoo!'s share of the market is about 20 per cent and Microsoft trails with slightly more than eight per cent, according to April figures from industry tracking firms.<br /><br />Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has repeatedly expressed interest in a deal with Yahoo! but Bartz said that too much attention was being paid to the issue and Yahoo! was doing fine on its own. </p>