Google settles click fraud for $90 million. DirectX 10 will better for physics but not great. Microsoft is definitely gunning at Apple with its Zune media player.

Robbie pictured smugly here went on record saying that the Zune initiative i to cost "hundreds of millions of dollars in investment over time." As with the Microsoft Xbox platform, Mr. Bach emphasized that Zune is a long-term bet. "It is something that is going to take time. This is not a six month initiative," he said. "This is something that is going to be a three-, four-, five-year investment."