Ballmer unveils mashup beta, dismisses online Google apps: "In his keynote, Ballmer also dismissed efforts by companies like Google Inc. and Zimbra Inc. to take on Microsoft's Office suite with online personal productivity application suites. The Microsoft Outlook personal productivity software, he noted, is available on a phone or as a rich client application in a browser. 'We think of our job as to deliver productivity,' he said. 'Outlook is whatever best suits a given user at a given time. What we will do is focus in on delivering the experience and taking advantage of all technology models.' Google's hosted applications might be good for 'a few people to collaborate on fairly simple thing,' Ballmer said. However, he noted that if users want to do something they would do in Word or Excel, 'today, Word and Excel is the best place to do it.'"
The Seattle Times: Postman on Politics: "Bill Gates, Sr., is a $2,300 donor to Obama. His son — a 2004 George Bush backer — doesn't show up yet as donating to any presidential campaigns."
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