In today's daily news podcast, Microsoft shares tumble on spending plans as the company expands System Center and says it's nearly finished with Windows Live ID deployment; Google is condemned for its recent click-fraud settlement; Mozilla pulls a major Firefox 2.0 feature; some Sun partners say the firm needs to make dramatic cost-cutting moves; EDS lands a $1.7 billion IT contract at Kraft Foods; a new software product promises to stop zero-day exploits; and a debate breaks out over the notion of "tag spam."

Today's In-Depth is about Google, and our editorial comments are about outsourcing research.

Your host today is Johanna Ambrosio.

Background music: "After Four, Before Eight," courtesy Digital Riffs Music under Creative Commons License.