Off topic: Why do headlines from some sources omit the "and" from sentences? Shouldn't it say "Microsoft hopes to bury iPhone and Android"? It's not like I can say "honey, can you buy some apples, pears, oranges at the store?". I might be wrong, but this is something rather new, right? If so, when and why did it come about?
My guess is that laying a newspaper out on paper is essentially a 2D packing problem—which is an NP-hard optimization problem. I assume removing unnecessary words from headlines when helpful is a good way to give yourself some wiggle room in terms of what goes where.
