In today's daily news podcast, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admits there's a lot of work left to do on Vista, the U.S. hits the H-1B Visa cap for fiscal 2007, the EU clashes with Homeland Security over access to airline passenger data, the FBI wants Internet records kept for two years, and the growing volumes of data are fueling database sales. We tell you six things you didn't know about Linux, and the World Cup goes live on the Internet. The Editor's Note considers the upsides of "reverse outsourcing."

Your host today is Patricia Keefe.