Microsoft and Yahoo reportedly met earlier this week to hold merger talks, a pow-wow at which Microsoft pitched its vision for the combined entity, though no negotiations occurred and no investment bankers attended. That didn’t stop the Redmond software giant from making another acquisition, though. Microsoft buys Rapt for ad management tools that it hopes will boost online advertising yields. Over at the Source Boston 2008 conference, security futurists shun perimeter, anti-virus systems urging IT, instead, to look toward outsourcing and grid computing to fend off sophisticated attackers. Whereas nearly 80 percent of companies have pulled eco-friendly projects higher up their priority lists, according to research from The Corporate IT Forum, green IT still lags behind security, legacy software, data quality and server consolidation. And, this week’s video recap of tech news includes Bill Gates’ appeals to lawmakers for more H-1B visas, the E.U.’s approval of the Google-DoubleClick merger, AOL’s Bebo buy, and more. Watch the video. Software Development