Go xbox!

Quoted: This morning at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the next step in its Xbox Live and XNA initiative: the Zune will be entering the fray as new third pillar of XNA software support, with over 1,000 games for the device by year end. XNA software developed for the Xbox Live Arcade is now going to be opened to the public.

Sweet. What do we win?

Quoted: Microsoft prevailed in a high-profile technology industry battle with Google and Yahoo to invest in the social networking upstart.

Apparently fake steve jobs is speaking at MS

Quoted: That's right. I'm visiting the Borg campus and speaking there. No guff. The book publisher set this up. Apparently the Microtards just can't get enough of my abuse. I'm told that Beastmaster and Monkey Boy will both be attending because they want signed first editions.

Quoted: Daniel R. Heimbach, a professor of Christian ethics at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, believes that churches should reject Halo. “To justify whatever killing is involved by saying that it’s just pixels involved is an illusion,” he said.

Exactly. That sort of justification could only ever be an illusion - not real. Almost as if the justification itself was composed of pixels representing something without substance. Wait, what?

zomg 10 billion!

Quoted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is talking to Facebook about an investment in the company that could value the fast-growing social network at $10 billion or more, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.

Hmmm.. You know you're doing something wrong when the Bush Administration starts to "repeatedly defend" you. Google's accusation is kinda lame though.

Quoted: A company the government once tried to break up has been repeatedly defended by the Bush administration against charges of anticompetitive conduct... Google has accused Microsoft of designing its latest operating system, Vista, to discourage the use of Google’s desktop search program, lawyers involved in the case said.

ha. that's ridiculous.

Quoted: Shares of Yahoo surged this morning after a newspaper report that Microsoft had asked the online rival to enter formal negotiations about a merger. The two companies have had held informal discussions in the past, and Yahoo could fetch $50 billion, the New York Post reported, citing banking sources.

Cool

Quoted: Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of Windows Live Messenger on Xbox 360, connecting friends across Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft Windows-based PCs and Windows Mobile-powered devices.

Quoted: Two pupils who used weed killer to draw a giant penis on their school lawn can now see the naughty image from satellite photos posted on the internet.