Anyone who stays after a MS purchase won't be working there for the love of the company, that's for sure.

With comments like that from Yahoo! employees, and Google and Facebook offering nearly a 100 grand for CS grads, there are going to be some ferocious battles for talent in the next year or so.

During the voting process the reputation of ISO as a dependable technical standardization organization was questioned. For example, in Sweden a Microsoft representative was caught offering to recompense partners for voting yes to OOXML. Also a sudden interest from countries like Ivory Coast to the OOXML issue has been found suspicious.We studied the relation between the corruption level and voting behaviours of the countries. We found that more corrupted the country is, the more likely it was to vote for the unreserved acceptance of the OOXML standard proposal.