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.

I might need to get one of these. Damn.

Quoted: If the iPhone succeeds commercially, it will be proof of Steven P. Jobs’s power and influence over the world’s consumer marketplace.

Why is it the press seem so suprised that there might be some 'vulnerabilities' in Vista? They make Microsoft out to be a bunch of incompetents. There are a several hundred developers writing millions of lines of code. There are thousands of people around the world looking for ways to exploit vulnerabilities in that code.

Why is it when someone hacks in to Windows it's deemed a Windows 'flaw' instead of just what it is, someone illegally hacking software.

And of course Microsoft gets zero credit for spending billions of dollars trying to develop a secure operating system for the masses.

Quoted: Researchers and hackers have found potentially serious flaws in Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system.