Yahoo, which is transitioning its back-end search infrastructure to Microsoft's Bing engine, will eventually also transfer BOSS to the Microsoft platform.

Yahoo plans to announce later a specific date for the availability of the new BOSS version, to which all developers must have moved 60 days after its launch.

After Microsoft and Yahoo announced their search partnership in July of last year, settled over Yahoo's search developer programs.

However, thanks to recent announcements, there is now a much clearer picture regarding , such as Search Monkey, and what the plan is for those that will be maintained, like BOSS.