Microsoft is having a mid-life crisis and is looking for the right sports car to purchase before divorcing its wife of 20 years for a 23 year old blond.

Here are some other, better suggestions from some folks out there in internet land, courtesy of CNET.

I can see the commercials now…”What is the deal with these new operating systems? I mean, c’mon, who makes these damn things? Who are these people?”

Only time will tell…

This isn’t good for the consumer, either.

I could care less about another Grand Theft Auto sequel. You saw the quotes in the article. This is going to make a large segment of the industry complacent. You’re going to see crappy sequels, or you’re not going to see the game you like at all anymore.

It’s in the investor’s hands now. Keep your fingers crossed.

I wonder if Microsoft even cares about any more potential repercussions  from tangling with the European Community business authority.  Come on already, MS. Don’t be in denial about this. They didn’t back down during the last round of litigation. Why would they now?

Then we have this announcement. Now I’m confused.

They don’t want to provide any information to smaller companies on a continent that could fit inside of Alaska, you know, because I am sure they are cutting deep and wide into Microsoft’s market share. Then they unveil the man behind the curtain to let everybody get a peek at how Oz operates.

Ribbit comes out of left field with this one. Rather ingenious, I can see the benefits of this technology already. It would be rather useful, giving your employees the ability to be more productive on the phone, rather than using up more time dialing into the building’s internal voice mail system to check messages. Messages received when the office was closed could be dealt with like e-mail while your employees are making and taking calls to and from live customers, possibly reducing the amount of voice mails received during normal business hours. Call centers would reap huge benefits from these applications. It would also allow companies to maintain a little more control over employee communications.

The boss might be reading your voice mail…

Check this out.

It’s a damn smart move and every other kid on the block is smacking their foreheads with the palms of their hands because they didn’t think of it first.

I say line all of them up for a stooge slap. There should be one mobile network and it should be accessible through any device capable of accessing for communication purposes. It would be the best thing since sliced - HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!

IT WOULD BE LIKE THE INTERNET! HOLY SHIT!

You’ve probably heard of it. It’s a place where you can go and shop, read books, chat with people, get your news, research for a paper. It’s been rather successful since they started putting pictures on it.

I know I’m being rather ornery about it, but the mobile industry needs to step into 2007.

Here’s a nice little take on the gaming console situation.

I seriously doubt that the unavailability of a Wii will substantially boost the overall sales of a PS3 like another purchase price cut would. I still think comparing the Wii to any other gaming console is like comparing apples to oranges. Nintendo created a niche in the console market, making a more physically interactive video game experience. Past Nintendo products like the Power Pad, Zapper, and Super Scope was just foreshadowing. As advanced as console games have become, the best the other manufacturers could do was allow communication via a headset, a vibrating controller, a miniature plastic simulated guitar with buttons on it, and a pad to play a dancing game on. I feel compelled to go by Dance, Dance Revolution right now. *shaking head right to left*

I’m being sarcastic, of course.

Something tells me Google is really going to shake up the mobile communications market within the next five years. They’ll be snatching up one of the smaller wireless carriers soon. My money’s on T-mobile.

Only time will tell…

Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., has announced that he intends to make accessing the Wall Street Journal Online for free in the near future. The rumor has been floating around since the company acquired the Dow from the Bancroft family, but this was the first official comment on the matter from a company insider, much less a board member. Murdoch states that it will “greatly increase the amount of site visitors…and draw in much more revenues through greatly increased advertising,” when he addressed a group of Australian investors several days ago.

Don’t get me wrong; I loath fumbling through a newspaper, but I have no reservations whatsoever when I can get my hands on a copy of the Wall Street Journal after everyone else has read it at my place of employment. The prestige and integrity of that publication is unmatched in the newspaper industry. They’ve been around for nearly one hundred and fifty years and have been keeping a pulse on the nation’s largest financial market since its infancy. The ONLY reason I never bother with the online edition is because of the fees. I have no doubts that the free online version will be a slightly trimmed down version of the actual paper, but I usually skip the multi-million dollar home listings anyway.

You would think they would have done this a little earlier to at least try to get the dollar out of the gutter. For crying out loud, Canadian money is worth more than ours.

Here’s a recent episode of “The Federal Reserve’s Comedy of Errors”

The stock price of Apple went up on the announcement of this deal and rightfully so. The question is, how much money is the People’s Liberation Party going to skim off the top via operating license and other miscellaneous fees. I question the infrastructure in China, especially after reports I have read in the Wall Street Journal about the Three Gorges Dam construction. I also question the integrity of that country’s “civil service” sector, which could pose its own problem. This is still very good news for Apple. Their profits will rise, no doubt; but, I am willing to bet that hacking that phone is going to be perfected into a fine art in that country, six months after the iPhone is put up for sale. I hope Google is also trying to tap that pool of talent. China might be a little behind in some regards, but their intellectual prowess is not to be underestimated.

Here’s what the New York Times/Bloomberg had to say about it.