This new garage will cover six city blocks?!  Auuuugh!  How will this help the MSFT traffic jam referred to in the comments on that article?  It certainly won't help the local traffic anywhere near Redmond.

I do think Microsoft is starting to act more like Big Blue - remember when the common phrase for them was "We're IBM - We don't have to care"?  That seems to be where Microsoft is.  Too many changes they are making look like "hey, let's sell some software" rather than "hey, this will help productivity".  And isn't productivity really one of the reasons software exists?

Kudos to GOOGLE for having vision in a slightly different direction that Bill Gates.  We really need some forward thinking to preserve this planet for our children (that's the "royal" our - meaning every child in every country on Earth).  Maybe we should ask GOOGLE to look at mass transportation.   They could probably come up with some solutions that would work!