Sweet!

Quoted: Yes, the rumors were true. Microsoft and Netflix are teaming up to bring its “Watch Instantly” feature to the Xbox 360 gaming device this fall.

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: We’ve got multiple sources at both Yahoo and Microsoft telling us that official talks are back on between the two companies. But we’re hearing something different than CNET - the talks are about a full buyout again, not a sweetened search-only deal.

Quoted: Robbie Bach is the president of the multibillion-dollar Entertainment & Devices Group at Microsoft. The group is closing in on a big fiscal year end on June 30. The company has projected that the group will be profitable this year for the first time since its inception in 2005. One of the products that isn’t profitable yet is the Zune media player.

Quoted: Documents unsealed Monday evening reveal some sexy details on the process inside Yahoo, but probably don't change the dynamic with Microsoft, Carl Icahn -- or Google, for that matter.
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Among the highlights:
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Microsoft made a $40 per share bid for Yahoo in January 2007, but was rebuffed by then CEO Terry Semel.
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Microsoft went public with its 2008 bid after attempting another private transaction and coming to the conclusion that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang was adamantly opposed to selling.

Quoted: Microsoft Live Messenger is the latest to integrate Facebook chat, meaning you can talk it up with your Facebook friends directly from Microsoft’s instant messaging client, according to a report on allfacebook. This integration is a passive and useful way in which Microsoft can utilize the social network into which it invested millions, and further

Quoted: SAN FRANCISCO - Video-game retailer GameStop has decided to stop selling Microsoft's Zune players at its stores due to what it sees as insufficient demand from customers.

Here is the old Web Team Talking column on MSDN that I used to contribute to.

Quoted: We had to lock away the Xboxes to get some work done; they were just too much fun. Without further ado, please welcome the newest Web Team member and Halo hog, Tosh Meston! We put him through the paces this month, and not just on the virtual slopes. We hope you will be as pleased as we are with Tosh's contributions to the team. This month we show how to implement help in a Web page, wax lyrical about states of ASP.NET, and even do a little modalling.

That was fast.

Quoted: Microsoft has relaunched Farecast -- the Seattle online travel search startup that it acquired last month -- under the new name Live Search Farecast.