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Doctors blame "exhaustion" as the CEO of Microsoft danced like a gnome at CES and declared over and over, Microsoft Now Owns Your Soul.

Microsoft blew past expectationsfor December quarter revenue and profits thanks to huge Windows 7 sales. Sales in the Windows division (which is more than 60% of total revenue for the company) were up 70% year-over-year, beating Wall Street estimates. The company says Windows 7 licenses so far, "making it the fastest selling operating system in history." By contrast the Online Services Business lost $466 million from operations – even more than last year. 

Name: Tom’s Planner

Quick Pitch: Tom’s Planner allows you to create and share Gantt Charts online with drag-and-drop simplicity.

Genius Idea: Project management software is useful for everyone — from the giant software development company trying to make a launch date to a bride planning her wedding. Still, it’s often expensive and complicated. Desktop software Microsoft Project is deep and feature-rich, but it’s mired in abstraction and user-unfriendliness. That’s what Tom of Tom’s Planner would argue, anyway, and that’s why he put together an easy-to-use web app for making Gantt charts.