Six Degrees Of Stupidity

I heard on talk radio today that Microsoft actually had time to put resources toward this whole Kevin Bacon esk' "six degrees of seperation" with regards to instant messages.

As a stock holder and user of their Windows platform and victim of their security whole riddled programs I did not believe it but sure enough I just found an article up on bbc news about this very topic.

Is it just me or dont the folks over at Microsoft have more importhing things to be doing with their time like plug'n all the holes in their software? Or coming up with something new and inventive instead trying to play catch up to companies like google and apple?

I'm just say'n...

- Scott