CNET: Microsoft's browser play. The removal of IE as a free, downloadable software application could have a profound effect on the Web and the development of Web standards.

Zeldman: IE/AOL; the flip side. Why proposed negative (anti-IE) and positive (pro-luxury-browser) grassroots campaigns cannot change consumer behavior or alter Microsoft and AOL's business decisions. What is likely to happen to design and development methods over the next few years. Some of this is actually good news, really.

Whopper of the day, another one from Microsoft:

In response to some skeptical questioning from the Indian press about the investments, Gates had this to say:- "It is only because of Microsoft's approach that the computer industry has become a worldwide industry."

And he probably believes it, too. In Bill's model of globalization, he is the world.

Quoted in the Register: We've seen the future, Indian Prez tells Gates - and you're not in it.