http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2009/tc20090728_826397.htm

That’s one search giant down. Bing, with the combined searches of Yahoo would approach 30%:

Yahoo will essentially scrap its own efforts to best Google in search and instead rely on Microsoft’s recently debuted Bing search engine, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and the BoomTown blog. Ads placed next to those search results would be served up not by Yahoo’s ad platform, dubbed Panama, but by a Microsoft technology called AdCenter, says another report from Advertising Age. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz “is essentially giving up on search,” says Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Land.

Yahoo salespeople likely will continue to sell the search ads that appear both on Yahoo sites and on Bing. And the company that sells an ad—in this case, Yahoo—may get as much as 80% of the resulting revenue.

It’s unfortunate with one less player in the search market although I am partly guilty of it since I kinda pro-Google.

It’s center, yet not quite. It chose a USB plug but what’s the link. And the reflection at the bottom looks messy, maybe because I’m not using Internet Explorer. And you need to click on the text to change the tabs.

[EDIT: It doesn't look matching in Internet Explorer 8 either.]

Slashdot: Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred “a Disease”

In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.

“Obviously we are tickled about it,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “Hell has frozen over, the seas have parted,” he said with a chuckle.

Microsoft made the announcement at the annual OSCON open source conference that opened Monday in San Jose.

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux driver project lead and a Novell fellow, said he accepted 22,000 lines of Microsoft’s code at 9 a.m.PST Monday. Kroah-Hartman said the Microsoft code will be available as part of the next Linux public tree release in the next 24 hours. The code will become part of the 2.6.30.1 stable release.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html

All I can say is that this is a good sign.

I’m writing to thank you for registering and using Microsoft Popfly. I’ve been fortunate enough to see all the innovative mashups, Web pages, and games created by the Popfly community since we launched Popfly two years ago. It has truly been a pleasure to watch the spirit of creativity flow through a growing Popfly community over the life of the product.

It’s with a heavy heart that I share some news with you today: on August 24, 2009, the Popfly service will be discontinued and all sites, references, and resources will be taken down.

After August 24th, your access to your Popfly account, including any games and mashups that you’ve created, will be discontinued. However, Microsoft is still very much dedicated to helping you express your creativity and pursuing a path to software development. If you’re interested in refining your skills in Web applications, please visit Microsoft Web Platform Installer. For those interested in programming on the Xbox, then please visit Microsoft XNA or Microsoft Kodu. And for those who are interested in Windows programming, please visit Microsoft Express.

Thanks again for your support and please don’t hesitate to contact us at popfly@microsoft.com if you have any questions.

Regards,
John Montgomery
for the Popfly Team

More at Techcrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/17/microsoft-popfly-gets-squashed/

From the transcript of a presentation at the Worldwide Partner Conference today:

And you know why I know they’re working? Because two weeks ago we got a call from the Apple legal department saying, hey — this is a true story — saying, “Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we lowered our prices.” They took like $100 off or something. It was the greatest single phone call in the history that I’ve ever taken in business. (Applause.)

I did cartwheels down the hallway. At first I said, “Is this a joke? Who are you?” Not understanding what an opportunity. And so we’re just going to keep running them and running them and running them.

Source: Crunchgear

Linux: Welcome to Twitter, @Microsoft #
Mirosoft: @Linux thanks, nice to be here #

Meanwhile in Twitter, you can also find Coca Cola and Pepsi following each other.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx

When I thought it was only a concept video, I found this video of the actual product demo at E3:

Very cool.

By requiring you to move your whole body just to switch channels, I guess the mankind of the future won’t really be fat and almost limb-less humanoid as seen in Wall-E.

[ Learned from my bro's Twitter - @ufong ]