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A couple of good stories:
How to hear without listening (Blake Ross talks about why FireFox was created and his intentions.)
I have nothing to gain from gratuitously denigrating IE. Firefox is and always has been about serving users, not crushing competition. It is scary to think what life would be like if I woke up each [...]

Cringely already has his #3 prediction from the beginning of the year checked. This new post by him is the best I have seen regarding the Apple XP announcement.

Money aside, I would say this story makes me feel more associated with Paul Allen.

13 years later and Microsoft still can’t get a piece of AOL. It is now legendary the talks between Case and Gates in which Gates threatened, I can either buy you or put you out of business. At the time Paul Allen had almost aquired 25% of the company. But Gates’s comments never came true [...]