For those who love Farecast, a website that is supposed to help you predict whether the fare you’re paying is the lowest or not, but hate Microsoft, life just got a bit more difficult.  Microsoft snapped up the small company earlier this month in an apparent effort to get expand their penetration into the travel business.  This should either ensure that Farecast sticks around for a while since it now has a big company behind it, or the technology will end up integrated into some Microsoft proprietary solution meaning you can only use it if you buy from them.  I hope it is the former.