Microsoft buys Netflix, Ballmer steps aside... could it happen?

There has always been some sort of symbiosis between Microsoft and Netflix, in spite of initial problems with Silverlight, even his CEO, Reed Hastings, has said publicly that he likes Windows 7, and the idea of the former buying the latter is not as farfetched as it may sound, but for reasons that go beyond likability. In one insightful article that appeared recently in CNNMoney (a service of CNN, Fortune and Money), the author asserts that the best way for Microsoft to turn the stock price around isn't Bill Gates returning, but "Microsoft buying Netflix and Ballmer sharing the CEO spot with Hastings." Netflix could be the core of Microsoft's answer to Apple's iCloud...?