Microsoft Should...

1. Host a Sit-Down with Shareholders
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer should be putting the major shareholders at Legg Mason and Capital Research and Management on speed dial and requesting in-person meetings to profess to all of the goodness that could come from a Microhoo when it's all said and done. Ballmer must paint a rosy picture of life after the deal, painting Microhoo as a desktop-Internet software powerhouse catering to most of the world's consumers in the same affable way that Google tries to present itself.