Indeed, the data would be interesting - I suspect that it will show less income, but will also could potentially show considerably less cost. For Murdoch it will be profitability that matters, not revenue.

Microsoft has made contributions to the Linux Kernel over the last twelve months, I'm not sure that the GPL is much of a roadblock anymore.

... of the 730k patents mentioned are software related?

Shouldn't it be - "Project Natal Named 'Kinect'"?

http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/11/21/committed-to-comprehensive-results.aspx

Filed under "weirdest story ever to appear on /."

Next week we can discuss the outrage that stems from Microsoft's refusal to offer free back massages on the New York subway.

Actually, under the FCPA being an employee of an American company is enough to subject you to this federal statute. You don't have to be American, or in America.

That is absolutely not the case, there is full support for ODF in Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

The video I have linked in the post below will give you an idea of how quickly we'll solve this problem...

http://osrin.net/2008/12/the-rapid-deployment-of-electronic-health-records/