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Microsoft Office Heads For The Cloud

Steve Ballmer says his company's popular productivity suite is evolving to take advantage of Web-based computing.

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Funeral For A Fiend
Most web designers and users despise Internet Explorer 6, especially now that it has been hanging on for nearly a decade. So there weren't a lot of tears shed at the recent funeral for IE6. But is it really dead, or will it live on in a zombie-like existence?

Windows Phone 7: Hail Mary
If the story at Ars Technica is to be believed, Microsoft really is starting with a clean slate with its Windows Phone 7 platform. That seems like a good idea, because the old slate wasn't tearing up the market. However, Microsoft's new platform seems like it's betting on a slate of proprietary technologies that haven't yet been proven in the mobile world.

Impostor And Investigator Exploit The Net
The famous 1993 cartoon from the New Yorker magazine said that "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." The Internet certainly makes it easier to misrepresent yourself, if not your species, but it also makes unmasking an impostor much easier. A great example of that emerged last week.

Two Big Challenges For Windows Mobile
Microsoft seems to have won some positive comments from the people who have gotten an initial peek at Windows Mobile 7. It really does seem like the company has learned its lessons and made some long-needed improvements to their mobile platform. But there are still plenty of challenges ahead for Microsoft.

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