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Here's a lesson for reporters covering the Black Hat security conference: Trust noone.

Score one for the good guys: Last week, Microsoft announced that not only would Office 2007 Service Pack 2 support the ODF (Open Document Format) standard, but the productivity suite would not offer support for the ISO standard version of Microsoft's own OOXML (Office Open XML) format until its next major version, release date unknown.

HP is to buy EDS, CBS is to buy CNET, Carl Ichan launches a proxy fight for Yahoo, Microsoft limits computing power for XP, LG introduces a 3G Prada phone and Twitter beats big media on the China quake.

Sun Microsystems has dropped its unpopular plan to charge for some features -- and their source code -- in its recently acquired MySQL database.

A year ago, Computerworld wouldn't have published an article describing how to switch from Windows to desktop Linux. The operating system's installation glitches hadn't been smoothed out, app and basic utility support was still too spotty, and peripheral device support lagged. Oh, yeah, there was one more thing: The demand simply wasn't there.

After months of antagonizing the open-source community, Microsoft now appears to be trying to engage it by seeking an official stamp of approval for the licences that the company uses to share its own software and source code.

Slashdot.org plans to release a new feature designed to give more participation in the selection of articles to its users, who submit links to stories and comments about them to the site.

George Lucas has been quoted as saying that "A movie is never finished, only abandoned." This is actually a profound insight and makes a lot of sense, because creative people always want to refine their vision to be as close as possible to the perfection they envision. The trouble is if their work is to ever be seen, they have to turn it loose when it is as far past "good enough" as they can afford to go.

Sooner or later, Google is going to have to start doing a better job of coming to grips with the collateral damage created by the ever-expanding array of whiz-bang applications that have made it a worldwide phenomenon.

Hewlett-Packard obtained the telephone records of nine reporters as part of its internal probe of information leaks, the company confirmed Thursday.

Open-source advocates have lashed out at SAP after a senior executive's "bold and ill-informed" criticisms.