Future of blogging and news reader development

The following story: Microsoft to dominate Blogging sooner then expected... is an interesting article on the potential outcomes as Microsoft moves into the blogging space with free / bundled tools for blogging and for news aggregation. Essentially the potential for this move to drastically reduce the likelihood of innovation in this area. Feel free to post your comments to this story. We will discuss this, and related issues on monday (along with the case discussion).