Everyone seems to have an opinion about Microsoft’s blockbuster announcement (including me), but sometimes it’s difficult to sort through all the opinion to get at the facts.  Here’s a list of factual information, so far:

• Microsoft’s Press Release announcing the offer  (Fri 2/1)
• Microsoft’s Press Release on the press conference call  (Fri 2/1)
• Written transcript
• Audio recording (.wma 28min 10 sec)
• PowerPoint presentation
• Steve Ballmer’s email to Microsoft employees  (Fri 2/1)      (Via Todd Bishop’s blog at the Seattle PI)
• The Yahoo! email to employees   (Fri 2/1)      (via Vanessa Fox at Search Engine Land)
• Google’s response: Yahoo! and the Future of the Internet  (Fri 2/1)
• Statement from Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel (Sun 2/3)
• Microsoft Strategic Update (includes statements on Yahoo!) (Mon 2/4)
• Transcript
• Webcast
• PowerPoint

We’re sure the press and the blogs are going to be full of opinion in the coming weeks and months, and you’ll get quite an earful here, too.  However we’ll do our best to keep the facts in mind as we continue to follow this very interesting story.