After all the speculation by Paul Graham, Steven Hodson, Rod, Nick Carr and others, I now have the proof that Microsoft is Dead:

After all, if no-one writes about it, it must be dead.

Unless … it’s the Technorati Monster again.

Update: TechCrunch just reports that Technorati introduced a new streaming Topics feature:

…some may suggest that the move today is a case of shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Perhaps that explains the outage.