411 Service from Microsoft

As a natural next step of purchasing Tellme, Microsoft is launching LiveSearch411 with 1-800-CALL-411 as the access number (the number is not active yet). This is in direct competition to Google's 411 service (1-800-GOOG-411).  I feel bad for the 1-800-FREE-411 guys - they could have been acquired in this war (although Yahoo! is still out there without such 411 service, and might approach them).  This is more validation for voice based services such as Frucall.