The answer is yes. I have to admit that I was a little sad when Fake Steve was outed last year. Daniel Lyons proved himself to be a better Fake Steve than a real Daniel Lyons writing for Newsweek. There’s no real money in Fake Steve, so Lyons is back for the fun of it. If you follow Apple, and are mesmerized by Steve Jobs, you’ll love Fake Steve.

Palm, which has reinvented itself with a business model that basically involves doing whatever Apple does, only two years later, announced today that its CEO, Jon Rubinstein, is planning to receive a liver transplant. No official date—they just say it will happen sometime in the next 12 to 18 months.

Priceless.

Microsoft Office for Mac 2010 kills off Entourage, replaced by a Mac version of Outlook. What took you so long, Redmond? David Coursey of PC World opines:

For a decade, Mac users who needed access to Microsoft Exchange servers were given a truly second-class client, Entourage, to do it with. It has been part of MacOffice since 2000.

Alright, I was a Mac Office user for 10 years, loved Entourage to death because there was nothing better on the Mac. That was then and this is now. OS X’s Mail, iCal, Address Book work well together. OS X Snow Leopard brings Microsoft Exchange support, so who needs Outlook?

At any time, Microsoft could have created a real Outlook for Mac, fully Exchange-compatible, but chose not to, apparently hoping the lack of tight Entourage support would hobble the Apple platform. And it did.

What has happened to Mail, iCal, and Address Book in recent years is subtle. Exchange support in Snow Leopard is not subtle. That alone provides a bigger door into the enterprise for Macs.

Apple began developing replacement programs—Mail, iCal, and Address Book—that despite their success never reached full Exchange compatibility. That is, until the release of the new Snow Leopard OS. In a matter of weeks, Macs should become full players on Exchange-based e-mail systems.

Outlook for Mac is not the big news. Exchange support in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the big news.

Today is a monumental day for Microsoft. The first retail store opened in Arizona. The Microsoft online store was remodeled (it first opened in November 2008) and now sells PCs and 3rd party software and accessories.

Microsoft shill Mary Jo Foley sounds worried:

I have to admit I’m doubtful Microsoft is going to be able to pull off anything as sleek and hip as Apple has with its retail stores. And launching stores in major retail areas is an expensive proposition. But I’ll try and keep an open mind. Who knows: Maybe the Redmondians will find a way to one-up the Apple store, minus the attitude….

Attitude?

Oh, one more thing. Windows 7 debuts today, too.

Without question, Windows 7 will do better than Windows Vista. XP is just too long in the tooth to make business users suffer much longer. I’ll go on record and state that Microsoft’s brick and mortar stores will not be as popular or as successful as Apple’s retail stores. The newly revamped online Microsoft Store is another vain attempt to thwart Apple’s online sales success.

Nicholson Baker, book reviewer for The New Yorker on the best ebook reader. He bought an Amazon Kindle but has a different recommendation.

Amazon, with its listmania lists and its sometimes inspired recommendations and its innumerable fascinating reviews, is very good at selling things. It isn’t so good, to date anyway, at making things. But, fortunately, if you want to read electronic books there’s another way to go. Here’s what you do. Buy an iPod Touch (it costs seventy dollars less than the Kindle 2, even after the Kindle’s price was recently cut), or buy an iPhone, and load the free “Kindle for iPod” application onto it.

Take the advice with a grain of salt. He also recommends sleeping with an iPod touch under your pillow.

From Neven Mrgan on Twitter:

If AT&T sold T-shirts, they’d cost $9.95 a month.