Catching up with some of the technology news I came across a couple of articles in the December 2007b edition of PC Pro, both with Microsoft involved.

It would appear that Microsoft has climbed down over Vista. Microsoft had already started pushing PC manufacturers down the Vista route of oem installed software. I can’t recall anything like this happening before, but Microsoft are reported to be offering downgrade disks to PC manufacturers in order that they can continue supplying Windows XP. See the online article here The second part of the backtrack is that Microsoft will no longer be removing XP from the retail shelves in January 2008, but 5 month later in June. See the online article here

Google recently has dominated the Online Office suite, but IBM, Microsoft, and Adobe have all now joined in. Microsoft and IBM had been widely predicted to produce online office sauites, but Adobe was the surprise. Read more how Microsoft has taken Office Online, the first look at IBM’s free Office suite, and Adobe’s decision to enter into the Online Office Market.