Well, this explains why Microsoft seems ignorant of the Net:

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The New York Times story is really about Microsoft's new system for turning phone calls into e-mail and vice versa. Of course, IBM launches a better system this summer, so Microsoft's still behind the curve, just in that typical "Writing programs is hard!" way that Microsoft excels at.

Microsoft Plans to Blend Phones With Computers [NYT]