The spat between Microsoft and Google over a single software engineer emblemizes a shifting trend. Whereas once engineering talent flocked to Microsoft or Sun, now Google and Yahoo! are creating what Businees Week speculates is a brain drain. Can two companies really snap up all the available talent, creating headaches for the rest of the tech industry? Well, last quarter Google hired 230 engineers. In this an in other ways, the Internet has become the operating system. [via Slashdot]
