Microsoft has a equivalent to Hadoop known as Dryad.
They should have open-sourced Dryad a long time ago.

I wonder what is going to happen to Dryad with this focus on Hadoop.

or Levy's constant 3.275822918 billion

... IPV9 already around. ;)

Redmond doesn't have a Walmart....

If its just the click result for some weird search words then I would say Microsoft was being very clever.

If Microsoft is exclusively using Google's click-through data for the all the popular search words then Microsoft is cheating.

Microsoft's H.264 addon for Firefox has a bad memory leak.
See http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/971988-memory-leak-in-html5-extension-for-windows-media-player-firefox-add-on/

So this might be bad for Chrome.

Replied to wrong thread! Sorry.

Not quite true. See Bellard's formula and Bailey's formula on which it is based.

Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula lets you calculate the n-th digit of pi without calculating the n-1 digits.

I wonder what formula was used to calculate the digit here.