First Hotmail, now my health records?

Microsoft launched HealthVault beta yesterday. Log in with your Live ID, upload your private, personal, confidential health records, and start sharing? Interesting.

Cutting the Bungie cord

Rumors on Seattle P-I blogs turned out to be more than rumors. Microsoft said Friday it has spun off Bungie Studios, developers of the "Halo" franchise.

Pink and blue spreadsheets?

That's what my editor wanted to know when I told him where my story on gender and computer science was going.

Reprints

Once again, I've been lax in keeping this up to date. Here's a quick rundown of what's been keeping me busy:

Piracy, Amazon.com earnings, Digg fires Google, Microsoft's financial analyst meeting, Starbucks earnings, Office for Mac, Amazon's new fresh grocery delivery service, aQuantive acquisition closes, Xbox price cut (finally), Xbox wheel gets hot and smokes (yikes!), antitrust, Zune price cut, antitrust, antitrust.

Phew.

The profit post

Microsoft reported 4th quarter, full-year results Thursday after the bell.

Vista sentiment, 6 months along

Not sure how I managed to forget this one. How some people are feeling about Windows Vista.

DRM and Chickens

Monday: the latest move in an ongoing battle between Microsoft's Windows Media DRM team and hacker or hackers who wish to set music and movies free.

Tuesday: Microsoft's addictive Chicktionary helps boost search share.

Getting hot in Redmond

Microsoft said Thursday it's extending the warranty for Xbox 360 consoles to three years for death-by-general-hardware-failure.

The company isn't saying much about causes of death, but that's never stopped folks from speculating online.

Meanwhile, if you're Googling (or Live-searching) for my name and the word Xbox and you happen to see versions of this story with the word spelled "warrantee," um, apologies. Rest assured that my editor is planning to add "ee" to every IM'd word he sends me from now 'till eternity.