Microsoft "BIG" Announcement today

Well, not to be outdone by Lindsay Lohan bearing her breasts for New York Magazine or Gene Simmons having sex with some model babe young enough to be his daughter (Can you tell I'm jeolous). Bill Gates and his chronies over at Microsoft will be announcing something "Major" today. Gamers seem to think it has something to do with them, while others think it is about an aquisition of Yahoo.

Seeing as Yahoo doesn't really have anything on their news, the later might just be the case.

There is also some speculation this announcement is about Microsoft offering its product as an online service, similar to that of Google. Of course, Microsoft being Microsoft, you will end up paying through the nose for this.

Then again, there is the possibility Bill will out himself as a transexual with a keen interest in showing off his nipples to aging rock stars.

OK, consider breakfast ruined


Wow, as one article put it, "Hell just froze over" Bill Gates and Microsoft just announced they will be opening up their platforms to outsiders. This means there is hope for the Linux geeks to work better with Microsoft aps.

In a conference call today, Microsoft outlined a sweeping change to the way it does business. The corporation vowed to “increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability.

The announcement will cover all the company’s APIs and protocols for major software such as Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Windows Server 2008. The move will make it easier for those who use Microsoft products to retain hold of their information and even move it to rival products if necessary.

“These steps represent an important step and significant change in how we share information about our products and technologies,” said Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer of the announcement.

“For the past 33 years, we have shared a lot of information with hundreds of thousands of partners around the world and helped build the industry, but today’s announcement represents a significant expansion toward even greater transparency.”

As an immediate next step, starting today Microsoft will openly publish over 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows client and server protocols that were previously only available under a special license.