I was reading an article in the WSJ about Steve Balmer and Microsoft, and realized something interesting. Microsoft has given considerable cash back to share holdings – in excess of $100bn when dividends and share buy-backs are added together. This is no small amount of money; had that cash stayed on Microsoft’s balance sheet, Apple [...]

Microsoft’s Bing Search engine has launched. Reviews overall have been generally positive, and it’s great for search competition to have a serious player release a product to rival Google. Monopolies are bad for innovation, bad for progress, and Google with it’s nearly 70% market share has close to a monopoly on the search market. I’ve [...]