Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's predicament and potential future directions, the Nintendo 2DS, and ergonomic keyboards.

• Follow-up: Time Capsule vs. Siracusa. Casey was right!
• The state of Microsoft: How much was Ballmer's fault?
• Ben Thompson on Steve Ballmer.
• Microsoft's enterprise business.
• Should Microsoft pull an IBM and/or spin off its consumer business?
• What could Microsoft do to regain momentum and marketshare in phones and tablets?
• John on the Nintendo 2DS announcement. (Side-by-side with 3DS, 3DS XL, the Kid Icarus: Uprising stand).
• After-show: Jeff Atwood's CODE Keyboard, Truly-Ergonomic, and Marco's initial thoughts on the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop keyboard vs. the Kinesis Freestyle 2 for Mac and the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000.

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