Microsoft’s Skydrive is now available to the public offering 5GB of free online storage. I was using this service since beta and its pretty good. You can keep your data accessible only to you, shared folders accessible to your friends, and public folders open to everyone (which can be subscribed to via RSS).

Finally the most awaited news in the corporate world: Windows Vista SP1 is now finally released in RTM and will be also available in Windows Update next month (mid-March). A big relief also for some home users that are purposely holding the upgrade to Vista and waiting as a tradition to the first service pack before jumping ship.

Meanwhile, in the more important news for me: Windows Server 2008 is also coming at the end of this month. I heard many positive feedbacks and reviews with Windows Server 2008 – I hope it is really worth considering – the ROI - upgrading some of my servers that are running in Windows 2003 R2.

Microsoft went public for a whopping a $44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo.

With Bill Gates retirement in Microsoft’s day to day operation – I think this is the right time for them to shift their focus from the classic desktop related software to the new paradigm in computing – the cloud based services and applications.

In case this acquisition happens, I’m more excited as it will benefit us consumers and users as other competing companies will surely be more aggressive as well.

I have many private write-ups related with this topic and I’m really looking forward to a future dominated by my two favorite companies Google and Apple :)