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Gates vs. Google's crocodiles, and other Microsoft notes
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett appeared together for an extended interview on Fox Business News this morning, and TechCrunch has a transcript from their exchange about Google -- which started when host Liz Claman quoted Buffett saying Google's "moat of competitiveness" is so wide and full of sharks and crocodiles that it's tough to compete against them.
Gates responded, “Well, technology companies do for a period get in these wonderful positions and, you know, it’s great that there’s somebody willing to attack those moats. Microsoft is undeterred. We look at each one of those crocodiles and we say charge!”
John R. Wilke, a Wall Street Journal reporter who covered Microsoft's U.S. antitrust case, died of cancer Friday afternoon, according to the newspaper. He was 54.
Microsoft is opposing a proposal for a light-rail tunnel under the city of Bellevue, preferring a surface option that would preserve funds to extend the tracks further into Redmond, according to a story in the Seattle Times today.
ChannelWeb's Kevin McLaughlin has the line of the day, reporting that Microsoft partners believe demand for Windows Vista will achieve the "approximate level of interest that exists today for sightseeing tours to Chernobyl" following Windows 7's release.
Microsoft is working with Brand Affinity Technologies Inc. to offer celebrity endorsements in online ads, the company said today. More details from PaidContent.org's Joe Tartakoff.
Microsoft employees who moved to the company's new Entertainment & Devices campus donated couches, lamps and other excess furniture from their former Millennium campus to Union Gospel Mission for distribution to needy families, according to a news release today from CB Richard Ellis, which coordinated the move.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer team is offering a special version of IE8 that comes with footage of bands playing at the Bamboozle music festival.
Mary Jo Foley has released a new version of her Microsoft code name tracker, available for download as a white paper.
Joe Wilcox, formerly of Microsoft Watch, is back to blogging at joewilcox.com, with posts on his daughter's switch from Mac to PC, and Microsoft's latest Laptop Hunter ad. See his introductory post here.
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