MS Office Live beta – soon?

Just cleaning up the email inbox and I see I have email from Microsoft titled, “Microsoft Office Live beta is just around the corner.” Well cool, I’d forgotten all bout this (earlier post) but I do recall being quite intrigued. According to the email, some beta registrants will be notified “soon.”

I don’t

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IE7 Beta preview released

The Beta 2 preview of Internet Explorer 7 has been released into the wild today.

If you insist on sticking with IE, this seems like the direction to head. Take the little multi-media tour — a lot has changed since the earlier developer version. I’ve just downloaded it, but need to get back to work (*blush*)

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The Google OS – Goobuntu?

Just to continue this spate of Google stories…

Just in from Slashdot (via The Register), it seems that Google is doing something with Ubuntu, a popular/new linux distribution.

Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business – desktop software.

A version of the

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Do No Evil

Just sitting here pondering how the public can go through dramatic attitude changes. Think back a year or three and how folks generally felt about Google, for instance.

There were a lot of fans and very very few nay-sayers.

Fast-forward a year or 3.

Doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, does it? Do a quick

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Odd Bedfellows in the Anti-Spyware Biz

Have you seen SpywareTesting.org yet? There’s not much there, but some of what is there is rather interesting. For instance, the Partners Page. Did you ever think you’d see some of those all working cooperatively together? (ICSA Labs/Cybertrust, McAfee, Symantec Corp, Trend Micro and Thompson Cyber Security Labs).

From the

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