Around the Web 8.4.08: Microsoft plots for life post-Windows, Time Warner for life after AOL

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-- Time Warner has chopped up AOL on paper, making it easier to sell the aging-but-still-tops-in-its-class dial-up Internet access service and the advertising and content business, or both. WSJ

-- The technology press continues to chat about Microsoft’s leaked plan for a non-Windows operating system that could operate as a service. This account is more intelligible than most. PC Pro via Slashdot.

-- Motorola names a CEO from Qualcomm for its soon-to-be-spun devices business. MocoNews

-- Google’s Blogger service mistakenly blocks bloggers from blogging, deepening a quality-perception problem among the blogoisie. The Register

-- After Apple, the deluge: The booming demand for downloading iPhone applications is forcing carriers to allow far more flexibility in what customers can put on their cellphones. NYT

-- Microsoft’s attempt to blame consumers for the failings of Vista continues to rankle the tech-savvy. NYT

-- Linux is coming to more cellphones, courtesy of someone other Google. Stop the insanity! RCR Wireless

-- Social.FM, nee Mercora, goes to that place in the sky already crowded with companies that tried to make money from free music. GigaOm

-- Does McCain’s failure to compute mean anything? NYT

-- Joseph Menn