Microsoft continues to find its way into the news, but there rarely seems to be much good said about poor old Redmond. On the browser front, Firefox has moved over the 20% market share mark for the first time since November 2004, while Internet Explorer has dropped below 70% market share. Safari, Chrome, and Firefox are all winners in IE’s loss, but keep in mind, there are a handful of alternative browsers.

On the same day, it was announced that Microsoft’s Windows has dropped to a 15-year low 90% market share. Again, this is another impressive number with respect to market share, but like IE, Windows has been steadily declining as the available alternatives increase.

Finally, Microsoft is yet again in talks with Yahoo! over some sort of purchase related to Yahoo!’s search property. There is tremendous pressure from the board, led by Carl Icahn, to make some sort of a deal to streamline the company, but a total purchase is said to be out of the question. This is all hot on the heels of Jerry Yang announcing his departure as CEO and the end to a proposed deal between Yahoo! and Google.

Some say the new Microsoft Yahoo $20 billion search deal is fiction, but who really knows at this point.

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