'For me, Microsoft is so last century' — Christine Varney, assistant attorney general of the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice

That'll make Steve Ballmer look around for a chair....

Ms. Varney was quoted thus in Wednesday's Financial Times item by Richard Waters about how Google's become the new trustbuster piñata flavor of the month.

Remember when Microsoft was gonna dominate the world?

What with its stock price leveling off and layoffs — layoffs!? (apologies to Jim Mora) — the once scary übercompany's looking more and more mortal.