Giving a whole new meaning to the phrase Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt, it appears that a remarkable number of people these days will only speak to the press about Microsoft Corp on condition of anonimity – Since Justice settled, Microsoft has become impossible they just don’t care anymore, said ‘one Silicon Valley chief executive who once publicly blasted William Gates, Microsoft’s chairman,’ says the Wall Street Journal – Now he wants a tollbooth on the information highway with the proposed acquisition of Intuit Inc; others see Intuit’s personal finance and personal banking products as a means for Microsoft to get into on-line banking in a big way, with a view to becoming a bank itself and getting people to give it their money directly rather than it having to sell them software products first.
