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Microsoft Previews Office 2007 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft this week unveiled a major upgrade to the company's flagship Office platform, with an array of enhancements ranging from a new user interface to collaboration tools designed to streamline content management and business processes.
Reports: IE 7 Crashes While Accessing Windows Updates (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Some users of Internet Explorer 7's beta are reporting problems accessing crucial update sites, but Microsoft denies any system-wide glitch.
Microsoft's Office Live Goes Beta (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft has launched a beta version of Office Live, extending the functionality of the company's desktop Office productivity suite to the Web with an array of Internet-based software services for small businesses.
Windows Media Player Worm Set To Strike (TechWeb)
TechWeb - An exploit against the Windows Media Player vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft two days ago may be only hours away from hitting unpatched users, a security company said Thursday.
Interview: Microsoft CRM General Manager Brad Wilson (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - As Oracle gobbles up its former competitors, vendors tout hosted services as the wave of the future, and customer-relationship management (CRM) emerges from a not-so-swell couple of years, there is one company taking a measured, steady approach on the road to market dominance: Microsoft.
Gates Outlines Microsoft Security Strategy (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday laid out a comprehensive security strategy designed to highlight improvements in the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.
SugarCRM Collaborates with Microsoft on Windows Interoperability (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Open-source vendor SugarCRM has unveiled a new technical-collaboration partnership with Microsoft that will boost interoperability between SugarCRM products and Windows Server.
EU Commission says received Microsoft's response (Reuters)
 Reuters - The European Commission on Thursday
said it received and would "consider carefully" Microsoft
Corp.'s response to its charges that the company has failed to
comply with anti-trust sanctions.
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Microsoft switches Japan Xbox chief, not strategy (Reuters)
 Reuters - The new head of Microsoft Corp's
Xbox division in Japan acknowledges that sales of the game
console have not fully met expectations, but says there will
not be a major shift in strategy following a slow start.
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Tech execs take their lumps, defend China policies (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Congressional lawmakers excoriated U.S. Internet companies at a hearing Wednesday for cooperating with Chinese government officials and stifling free speech in return for a chance to boost profits in China'. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems went before the lawmakers.
Traffic to NBC Olympics Web Site Rises (AP)
 AP - NBC's Olympics Web site, carrying more video of competition than ever before, is seeing increases in usage even as television viewership is down.
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Chicago Gears Up for Wireless Broadband (AP)
 AP - The nationwide rush to go wireless appears poised to extend to its biggest city yet. Chicago is launching an effort to offer wireless broadband, city officials said Friday, jumping on the Wi-Fi bandwagon as similar initiatives proceed in Philadelphia, San Francisco and smaller cities.
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Mac-User Sites Shut for Possible Violation (AP)
AP - Two busy Web sites that focus on Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system went silent Friday just days after they featured links to information on how to hack the software and run it on non-Apple PCs.
Google Criticizes Gov't in Court Papers (AP)
 AP - Google Inc. on Friday criticized the Bush administration's demand to examine millions of its users' Internet search requests as a misguided fishing expedition that threatens to ruin the company's credibility and reveal its closely guarded secrets.
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BT Group Invests $21M on VoIP Platform (AP)
AP - British telecommunications firm BT Group PLC announced Friday it is investing $21 million on a global platform to provide voice calling over the Internet.
NBC Uni to Web sites: Clip the clips (Reuters)
Reuters - NBC Universal is leaning
on popular Web sites engaged in video sharing to remove
hundreds of copyrighted video clips derived from its TV
networks.
Review: Alienware Area-51 m5700 Laptop (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - When you think affordable, Alienware isn't a notebook maker that will register even a small blip on your mental radar. But the Area-51 m5700 bucks the trend with solid features and performance at a competitive price.
MySpace Goes Mobile with Helio (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Wireless newcomer Helio has hooked up with the popular social-networking portal MySpace to introduce a pair of multimedia handsets as it prepares to launch a new mobile brand that targets young, tech-savvy consumers.
'Throwies' Put Open Source Spin On Graffiti (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Eyebeam OpenLab makes tiny, glowing, colorful lights that stick to magnetic surfaces and may begin a new chapter in graffiti.
IBM to boost Web enablement in Rational tools (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Seeking to more easily accommodate distributed development, IBM later this year plans to modernize its Rational software lifecycle management products to make them strictly Web-based.
NBC Uni to Web sites: Clip the clips (Reuters)
Reuters - NBC Universal is leaning
on popular Web sites engaged in video sharing to remove
hundreds of copyrighted video clips derived from its TV
networks.
Google rejects Justice Dept. bid for search info (Reuters)
 Reuters - Google Inc. on Friday formally
rejected the U.S. Justice Department's subpoena of data from
the Web search leader, arguing the demand violated the privacy
of users' Web searches and its own trade secrets.
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Mac-User Sites Shut for Possible Violation (AP)
AP - Two busy Web sites that focus on Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system went silent Friday just days after they featured links to information on how to hack the software and run it on non-Apple PCs.
Google Criticizes Gov't in Court Papers (AP)
AP - Google Inc. on Friday criticized the Bush administration's demand to examine millions of its users' Internet search requests as a misguided fishing expedition that threatens to ruin the company's credibility and reveal its closely guarded secrets.
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U.S. Takes Aim at Online Gambling (NewsFactor)
 NewsFactor - Legislation focused on cracking down on the thriving business of online gambling was introduced in Congress this week to tighten existing laws that outlaw the practice in the U.S.
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Can Google gain a foothold in the enterprise? (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Google's got its eyes on your corporate data, and if its ability to parlay its whip-smart Web search technology into a vast empire of consumer services is any indication, you may be Googling enterprise apps and data sooner than you think.
Traffic to NBC Olympics Web Site Rises (AP)
AP - NBC's Olympics Web site, carrying more video of competition than ever before, is seeing increases in usage even as television viewership is down.
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Chicago Gears Up for Wireless Broadband (AP)
AP - The nationwide rush to go wireless appears poised to extend to its biggest city yet. Chicago is launching an effort to offer wireless broadband, city officials said Friday, jumping on the Wi-Fi bandwagon as similar initiatives proceed in Philadelphia, San Francisco and smaller cities.
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Antigua protests US move to bar Internet gambling (Reuters)
Reuters - Tiny Antigua protested on Friday new
U.S. efforts to outlaw Internet gambling and complained the
United States had done nothing to implement a World Trade
Organization ruling against current restrictions.
Rumsfeld Says U.S. Will Not Close Gitmo (AP)
 AP - The Pentagon will not close its Guantanamo Bay prison for terrorist suspects, despite U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's call to shut it down, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday.
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