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Thanks, two people who eavesdropped on Microsoft execs

Yeah, we’ve fallen behind on updates again. But at least we’re not doing what the Wall Street Journal is doing.

This shot comes from CNET’s Molly Wood. Wood writes, “The death of journalism is nigh when this ‘sourcing’ is on WSJ’s front page.”

Nearly 10,000 iPhone users were accessing the Microsoft employee email system last year, say two people who heard the estimates from senior Microsoft executives.

That’s pretty awful, says one person who heard about the article from a CNET editor.

WSJ calls Google Buzz

Props to the Wall Street Journal on calling Google Buzz (not by name).

A day before Google called its press minions to a quiet back alley in Mountain View, the WSJ published a story called “Gmail, too, seeks to rival Facebook.” Citing “people familiar with the matter,” WSJ described a new feature in Google’s mail client that “makes it easier for users of Gmail to view media and status updates shared online by their friends.”

Sure enough, Google announced and fired off its social networking feature, Google Buzz. Cred point goes to Rupert Murdoch‘s newest bastard child.