Microsoft has officially released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista (aka Windows ME²). You can check out the release notes to find out most of what has changed. Undocumented changes are sure to be talked about soon on blogs everywhere… who knows, you might even get surprised by the new undocumented “features”. 
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Vaporware 2007 Awards
I was just talking about vaporware yesterday, and today the 2007 Award “winners” were announced. The list includes Diablo III, EA’s Spore, and of course Duke Nukem Forever (at the #1 spot). Also listed is the 802.11N standard, Windows XP Service Pack 3, and Guns N’ Roses’ next album Chinese Democracy.
View the 2007 Vaporware Awards @ Wired.
Opera Sues Microsoft For Antitrust Violations
Opera Software, ASA has filed a lawsuit in the EU against Microsoft, Corp. According to Opera, by bundling Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system, Microsoft is illegally monopolizing the Internet browser market. This makes it difficult for third-party browser manufacturers to compete and limits consumers’ buying options.
In addition to requesting the removal of IE from Windows, the lawsuit also urges the EU to force Microsoft to make IE compatible with web standards. Anyone who has ever done any serious web design knows how hard it is to get sites to look the same across different browsers.
I wish the U.S. would do more to force Microsoft to play nice.
Apple Safari For Windows
In case you haven’t heard, Apple has released a beta version of Safari 3 for Windows. That’s right, Apple has released their special browser for “that other OS”. Sounds like a bad idea to mix software like that… but then again, in this day in age, we have PCs running OSX. Why not Windows running Apple software?
If you look at the “Performance” chart, you might get the idea from looking at it that Safari is incredibly slow. Look again. The smaller number is better, not the bigger graph!
No, I’ve not tried it yet… and to be honest, I haven’t decided if I want to or not.
Microsft Running Scared
Is Microsoft scared of Google? From the looks of things, they might just be terrified.
It’s been long rumored (and often discredited) that Google has plans to launch a web based Operating System as well as an office productivity suite (based on OpenOffice.org). The internet has tons of pictures claiming to be Google Office or Google OS (GooOS even), but no one can vouch for the authenticity of the images. Most likely they are fake images created by someone with too much time.
Looks like Microsoft isn’t taking any chances. They’ve announced Microsoft Office Live and Microsoft Windows Live. Funny thing is, when I visit the “live site” it crashed Internet Explorer.
Now it’s time to see what Google plans to do. If anything.