Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Exclusive: Full text of Gates email, Ozzie memo. 

Podcast: A tour of my new Mac and other hardware and an ode to Steve Gillmor, a warm and wonderful human being. 

Dan Bricklin: "I'm working on a new product called wikiCalc." 

I was interviewed for the public radio show Marketplace.  

Financial Times: The Microsoft memos revealed. 

Wired: "This is going to be the Woodstock of podcasting." 

Reading Ernie the Attorney's blog, I wonder if New Orleans isn't the best place in the world to live in 2005. Think of it this way, how many times in our lives will a city get a chance to completely restart? And New Orleans is a great city. Red beans and rice. Crawfish etouffe. Louis Armstrong. Professor Longhair. Dr John. St Charles Avenue. Carnival. 

NY Times: "Microsoft must fundamentally alter its business or face being at a significant competitive disadvantage to a growing array of companies offering Internet services, according to memorandums written by two of the company's top executives." 

Seattle P-I: "In an Oct 30 e-mail message to Microsoft's top executives, Gates made it clear that he considered the new Windows Live and Office Live online services, announced two days later, only the beginning of a major shift in the company's business." 

Rex Hammock: "Is it just me, but don't these Gates and Ozzie e-mails sound like they were cribbed from Robert Scoble's weblog?" 

Cringely: We've Seen Microsoft's New Live Strategy Before.