Microsoft is selling a chunk of its advertising business to AOL, and some Bing Maps technology to Uber. In both cases, Microsoft employees will be leaving — totaling as many as 1,300 people.

Ohhh, so that’s what he meant when he said he’d “make some tough choices in areas where things are not working.” I guess this means that the loss-making Lumia smartphone business is safe — unless there’s another shoe still to drop.

In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wait for the other shoe to drop. Not to mention: Inventor of SMS texting dies at 63 after an illness…

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