Good post of Ozzy's Mesh

Quoted: For three years now I’ve wondered “what is Ray Ozzie up to?” And with this announcement you see just why he’s Microsoft’s CTO. Yeah, there are about 100 smart people working on Microsoft’s new “Live Mesh” which was turned on tonight, but this is Ray’s coming out party, as much as anything.

Quoted: Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. But Seattle is actually doing it.

Quoted: On Friday, roughly a decade after Netscape's fortunes started to slide, AOL announced it is finally pulling the plug on the Netscape browser. "While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer," Tom Drapeau, AOL's director of development, wrote on the Netscape Blog.

How is Windows supposed to innovate and take advantage of hardware advances when this perception exists?

Quoted: A survey conducted earlier this year by InformationWeek showed that an astonishing 30% of businesses have no plans to purchase Windows Vista. It's an indication that many corporate software buyers may take a long look at Linux, the Mac OS, or some other alternative to Vista once Windows XP is no longer available.

Quoted: Among other things, software buyers have railed against Windows Vista's price, lack of compatibility with existing software, and system requirements that exceed the capabilities of PCs more than a couple of years old.

A nice, succinct definition, in true Microsoft form...

Quoted: Microsoft defines Web 3.0, as the ability "to find, discover, extract, publish, and share information, at a desk or on the go, safely, making the Web meaningful (from string manipulation to meaning computation) and enabling a human-centric, context-aware model of information access."

"Microsoft" and "praise" in the same sentence? Wow.

Quoted: Microsoft partners introduced to the company's software-plus-services strategy this week at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) applauded the plan, though they noted a few challenges as the company makes the transition from selling business software to offering more hosted and Web-based services.

I think its a symbiotic relationship... art informs culture and culture informs art.

Quoted: When asked why Microsoft collects art, Klein answered, "Because they can. And they should. They are involved in culture. Technology is culture. And the art informs the culture."

Though unlikely, what would a merger between Microsoft and Yahoo look like? How would two companies with such different cultures combine? Would it go the way of Time Warner and AOL? Would it mire the two in years of ineffective coagulation, enabling Google to make even further strides, or would it actually help them close the gap?

Quoted: Shares of Yahoo Inc. soared as much as 19 percent to their highest level in nearly a year on Friday after two newspaper reports said the company and Microsoft Corp. were in preliminary merger talks to take on common foe Google Inc.

Quoted: But the stock pulled back after contradictory reports said the two companies may work out a joint venture or another form of cooperation that would stop short of a full merger. A source close to the situation confirmed that any talks had cooled.