Microsoft has always win in the market.

Maybe there is method in their madness…. Its a continual understanding of the way businesses work — sometimes the best strategy may not be the most straightforward way.

When worlds collide: Microsoft funds Apache |CNET News.com

Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open-source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one of open-source software’s biggest supporters.

“Microsoft is becoming a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This sponsorship will enable the ASF to pay administrators and other support staff so that ASF developers can focus on writing great software,” said Sam Ramji, a senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft. He announced the move Friday in a speech at the Open Source Convention, and noted Microsoft’s support of the Apache on the software company’s Port 25 blog as well.

He was an inspiration.

Live your dreams. Live your life as if it is your last day.

That’s great advice, and we should always remember that.

but we should remember that it is also important the other way - plan long term. Live some of your days as if you have a hundred more years to live. Some dreams and really great things can only be achieve by painstaking and unremitting focus for a good amount of time — something you cannot have if you perpetually think you will go away very soon.

Prof whose ‘last lecture’ became a sensation dies - Yahoo! News

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.

A few thousand pages of that belongs to me (grin)….

Google: We Have 1 TRILLION Pages Indexed - Mixx

“Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days — when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!