Two articles about Microsoft. The first one "Architecture astronauts take over", is about Live Mesh, and the other is on the failure of the .NET platform to attract top developers.

[Update: Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb expands on my thoughts in this post about the many useful Yahoo apps we can still enjoy.] I woke up this morning, at the other side of the pond, to the news that Microsoft had walked away from its offer to buy Yahoo. Apparently Microsoft had increased its offer by $4 a share to $33, but Jerry [...]

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