Microsoft Not Pursuing NYT, Thank You Very Much!

Microsoft does NOT want to buy the New York Times. Got that? Not that the Times is for sale, per se — at least to our knowledge. So perhaps the larger point Steve Ballmer was trying to make outside the McGraw-Hill building yesterday is that Microsoft has no interest in investing in what newspapers have to offer (even as newspapers are trying to figure out for themselves what exactly it is they have to offer).