Judge Orders Microsoft to Stop Selling Word

Note: I thought I would interrupt my Yahoo vs Google reviews for a little hard technology news.

Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of its premier products, in its current form due to patent infringement. Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML," according to a statement released by attorneys for the plaintiff.

Microsoft to roll out IE 8 with new defaults on Patch Tuesday

On August 11, amid the myriad patches and updates that Microsoft will roll out to users as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday bundle, there will be a new version of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 that includes different default-installation settings.

Another attack hits Twitter

Twitter's servers were on the fritz again on Tuesday, with members receiving server timeouts and third-party applications unable to access the microblogging service. This appears to have begun around 11:45 a.m. PDT.

Facebook buys FriendFeed: Is this a big deal?

Surprise! Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a Bay Area-based social-network feed aggregation start-up. "Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends," FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor said in a release. "We can't wait to join the team and bring many of the innovations we've developed at FriendFeed to Facebook's 250 million users around the world." This one took most of us by surprise.

Which is The Best Webmail – Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo! Mail?

Since I wrote about my opinions of Yahoo Mail vs Gmail on Monday, I thought I would share a different point of view.