(Not really) Crazy Microsoft Rumors: Facebook's new email to include Office Web Apps incorporation
It's the ideal opportunity for another (not really) insane Microsoft talk. This time, BFFs Facebook and Microsoft are the objective of one of my great source's tips. As an aspect of my responsibilities as a full-time Microsoft watcher, I get a ton of tips about Microsoft from clients, contenders, accomplices and even Softies themselves. Nonetheless, as far back as I worked for PCWeek over 15 years prior, I had it penetrated into my head that until the point that I could get three free sources - none of whom was continuing something s/he heard in a resound chamber - to certify a tip, I couldn't run it as a story. Nowadays, I see heaps of single-sourced tips being posted by bloggers and writers. In excess of a couple of these depend on a solitary, mysterious source, with no further identificationto enable perusers to choose whether a tip is probably going to be valid or not. No "as per a Microsoft accomplice who asked for secrecy." No "so says a client fu...