Microsoft and Yahoo! are expected to announce later on today that their two instant messaging programs will become interoperable. A combined 49.2 million users worldwide will be able to chat and talk to each other for free - very close to AOL’s 51.5 million.
For years the three companies have been talking about allowing interoperability, [...]

This video previews some of the new functionality that is coming in Office12. The whole video is 40 mins long so I just kept skipping. Here are the items I’ve spotted that I like:

I like the way Microsoft have tried to make it easier for users to access the functionality within [...]

Searchblog has an interesting extract of a transcript that supposedly comes from an ex-Microsoft engineer, Mark Lucovsky, in the ongoing lawsuit between Google and Microsoft, over Google’s hiring of Kai-Fu Lee. The statement reads:
“Prior to joining Google, I set up a meeting on or about November 11, 2004 with Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer to [...]

Kevin Burton reports that Microsoft are looking at new names for RSS. At the moment they are calling them “web feeds” but they are open to other suggestions.
For once I think Microsoft are doing the right thing, even though the techies are up in arms about what they see as another example of Microsoft [...]

I just had a quick look at MSN Virtual Earth. For those of you that missed this launch, Virtual Earth is:

Virtual Earth is a new map and search system soon to be released by Microsoft. Virtual Earth brings together a number of components that allow the user to find out “What is here?” [...]