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“Give it up for me.” Ballmer is spreading his poor company a little thin.

s new services than most think. Health Vault, launched in October, is not just a place where people can store their medical details online, but a service that can connect to all sorts of monitoring devices, as well as software used by hospitals and doctor

Local storage is a major new feature of the new web API, and developers will not only have support across browsers but will also have the option of Google Gears (which is already available) as well as Yahoo! BrowserPlus (depending on how it works).

"Moreover, things are likely to get worse as other companies realize that one way of weakening Microsoft is to strengthen open source. This has been an important element in IBM Corp.'s strategy for nearly a decade"

"Google has also started hosting high-level meetings where key free software individuals from a project can come together to meet face-to-face -- something that otherwise happens quite rarely."

How do you take on the dominant player in your industry, like Microsoft? Well, you aren't going to easily outspend or out market them. Microsoft has a tremendous amount of momentum and software assets creating a huge barrier for competitors. They have mor