I saw the story once and I thought: Oh, that’s kind of funny. I saw it twice and I thought: Hmm. I saw it three times and saw it all over Twitter and thought: This is getting ridiculous. There must be a shortage of stories in the blogosphere tonight because everyone seems to be pouncing on what is likely no more than a cute coincidence - that a snow leopard was the background image on Live Search tonight.

"Snow Leopard" is of course the nickname for Apple’s next operating system, OS X 10.6, due sometime this year. And while it’s a humorous thought that Microsoft is either trying to be cute or is clueless, if I had to bet, I’d say it was just whoever picks the images for Live Search thinking the Snow Leopard was a beautiful animal (which it is), and put it as the background.