Microsoft has landed itself in hot water, again, among the blogosphere and public in general after it offered to pay a blogger to edit certain Wikipedia articles in their favor.

Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia - anyone can add or edit almost anything on the site. The chaos of such a method is maintained in [...]

Thanks to my colleague Peter Kim, I’ve been tagged so I have to respond with this post. What’s going on? There’s this viral thing going on called "Blog-Tag" where the blogger writes five things about themselves not widely known, and then "tags" five other people to continue the chain. This online tagging game was recently [...]

One of the features of Microsoft’s new blogging technology software is WYSIWYG, which allows bloggers to more easily handle layout on blogs. Additionally, the blogging software, called Windows Live Writer, comes with a kit to help blog developers to extend the application, connecting with services such as tagging and photo sites. Outside blogging services are [...]

Adobe and Google are sticking the
annoying Google toolbar in the Adobe reader.  The Adobe Reader is part of an
estimated 55% of internet-enabled desktops.  Dell and Mozilla are other current
Google partners.
And, big business is happy to see
Google’s plans come to fruition:   
Google’s deal
with Abode was cheered by Merrill Lynch research analyst Justin Post, who wrote
in a research [...]

Microsoft ventured into the ‘original video’ business in the mid-late 90s, but due to slow dial up connections was unable to find a business model that would work.  However, if once you do not succeed, try, try again.
MSN Originals will be created by Reveille, the creators of The Office and The Biggest Loser.
MediaPost says they [...]

The RSS OS will NOT be shipping this christmas, as has been expected. It was only a few weeks ago that Microsoft announced they were ‘boxing up’ Vista. 
Microsoft Delays Vista:
The postponement to January, announced Tuesday afternoon, is a high-profile setback for the long-awaited upgrade to the software company’s biggest and most profitable product. As [...]

The current disagreement, and I say that lightly between Dave Winer and Randy Morin is one that is of particular concern for businesses. What IS the best way to offer up your feed?
Dave’s idea is to have a single RSS feed repository:
Now once we have a single place for subscriptions, which is a real [...]

Google executives can stop shaking just a bit as Steve Ballmer agressively denies the rampant rumors that Microsoft is courting Yahoo!.
While denials in business don’t always ring true, this one seems too astronomical to be seriously considered.  Though, keep in mind, stranger bedfellows have recently joined forces.  (WeblogsInc+AOL, , Ebay+Skype, Yahoo!+Flickr, and AOL+Google)

Already we see their cobranded advertising buttons on many blogs. Now, with today’s expected announcement that Google will release a Google Pack, including Firefox, the collaboration gets deeper.
Rumors that Google might enter the software market have swirled since at least last March, when the search giant hired Mozilla developers–fueling talk of a potential Google-branded [...]