a transcript from their exchange about Google -- which started when host Liz Claman quoted Buffett saying Google's "moat of competitiveness" is so wide and full of sharks and crocodiles that it's tough to compete against them.Gates responded, “Well, technology companies do for a period get in these wonderful positions and, you know, it’s great that there’s somebody willing to attack those moats. Microsoft is undeterred. We look at each one of those crocodiles and we say charge!”
John R. Wilke, a Wall Street Journal reporter who covered Microsoft's U.S. antitrust case, died of cancer Friday afternoon, according to the newspaper. He was 54.
Microsoft is opposing a proposal for a light-rail tunnel under the city of Bellevue, preferring a surface option that would preserve funds to extend the tracks further into Redmond, according to a story in the Seattle Times today.
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