Microsoft finally learning to let 'X' talk to 'Y'
The corporate bureaucracy has been slow to grasp that customers actually may want to take data from an Excel spreadsheet and pump the information into Google Maps. The mindset is finally changing.

Microsoft finally learning to let 'X' talk to 'Y'

A main driver of the takeover bid is the desire for "great engineers," says Microsoft's chairman. Plus: Windows 7 and other future tech.
Aaron Greenspan warns that Facebook is sacrificing user privacy on the altar of hyper growth.
With Aperture 2.0, Apple made up ground it had lost to Adobe Lightroom. What software for processing and cataloging raw images should a new customer buy?
Speaking at an event for the Google Lunar X Prize, Google co-founder Sergey Brin reiterates his company's position on a Microsoft-Yahoo union.

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