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In today's podcast: Microsoft revenue and earnings drop; Icahn quits Yahoo board; Some Windows 7 upgrades crash.

As the economy heads south, there are plenty of boneheaded CEOs and clueless government officials to blame. Looking at the overall economy in general, and the tech economy specifically, Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stand out for how destructive their actions have been. Which one of the two do you think has made more boneheaded decisions?

In today's podcast: Jerry Yang to step aside at Yahoo; John Thompson to retire from Symantec; China Mobile plans its own apps store; and pizza from your TV with TiVo.

Yahoo's owners have spoken and Jerry Yang is out as Yahoo CEO. Does this mean that Microsoft is in?

Yahoo's latest yawnfest (more commonly known as their annual stockholder meeting, webcast today on Stockholder.com) made me think about what the company needs to do to rebound.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which we ponder the fate of Jerry Yang's career -- will he be first against the wall when the shareholders revolt? Or are negotiations between Yahoo! and Microsoft still going on in secret? Not to mention ten drool-worthy luxury workstations...

Elizabeth Montalbano reports:

In the business textbooks of 2025, Microsoft's slow collapse will be attributed to many things. The failure of Windows Vista to hold the desktop market; Microsoft's inability to successfully move from a PC product based company to an Internet service based enterprise; and Ballmer's inability to pull off the Yahoo buyout.

Here's the text of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's letter to Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang, sent to me by Microsoft's PR about 5 pm Pacific Time on Saturday. Microsoft raised its original $31/share bid to $33/share, but Yahoo insisted on $37/share, ...