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Go Exchange!

Quoted: Microsoft has announced this morning the availability of hosted Exchange, Sharepoint, collaboration and communication as part of the Microsoft Online suite. The hosted platform is a direct competitor to the Google App platform, which is currently available either for free or for as little as $50 per year.

Quoted: 　Excelはその長い歴史の中で、数々の優れた機能をバージョンアップのたびに追加してきている。しかしExcelには、あまり知られていない便利な機能がたくさん埋もれているのだ。あなた（あるいはあなたのユーザー）がExcelを使うたびに特定の操作を行っているというのであれば、時間を節約できる方法でそういった操作を行いたい（あるいは行ってもらいたい）と考えているはずである。本記事ではそのためのティップスを紹介している。

Ramez was the MS rep on the call about the PowerSet acquisition.

MS acquired PowerSet to add natural language capability to the Live Search engine. The guess is that this was a $100M deal. Which shows there is still room for innovation in the search realm - it's good to see MS taking a stab at innovating in search.

The GOOG->MSFT Exodus: Working at Google vs. Working at Microsoft

Recently I’ve been bumping into more and more people who’ve either left Google to come to Microsoft or got offers from both companies and picked Microsoft over Google. In this blog post I’ll stick to talking about people who’ve chosen Microsoft over Google.

Great article on Bill's departure.

Quoted: I've been wondering for years what is it exactly about Microsoft's culture that prevents their best and brightest technical people from releasing great products as ...

Bill retired from Microsoft today. Nice video here looking back on his life from childhood to today.

Quoted: Watch videos that look back to the story of Bill Gates from his early years, to founding Microsoft and what lies ahead for him and the company he started.

Quoted: On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and neither man could hold back tears as Ballmer handed Gates a large scrapbook as a farewell present.
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One of those will be Web search, where Microsoft lags far behind Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in market share. With an acquisition of Yahoo now again apparently off the table, Gates threw his weight Friday behind a strategy of assembling a team of smart people and combining Microsoft's own breakthroughs with what competitors are already doing.

Quoted: Dossia, Google, Intuit, Microsoft, WebMD, AARP, America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians - among other healthcare stakeholders - are endorsing the Connecting for Health framework created by the Markle Foundation's public-private collaboration.

For all you Mac cult members...

Quoted: Furthermore, beyond the OS itself, I hate the cult of personality that surrounds Steve Jobs. I like the soon-to-be-retired Bill Gates way more than Steve Jobs, because the guy cares about more than just making enough money to build a castle for himself out of stacks of $100 bills (not that Bill can't do that).