That was a hoax. Simpsons production team put out a press release the shortly afterward saying Groening was being satirical in his comments.

Does anybody at Slashdot ever actually check *anything* before they post?

"The deal fizzled out when federal antitrust regulators said it would challenge any deal made between the two companies.""

The link is about the deal between *GOOGLE* and Yahoo!. Google != Microsoft.

The deal between Yahoo! and Microsoft fizzled out because Yang did everything he could to prevent it, not because of antitrust concerns.