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 More daily shorts for you all: 
  - Microsoft
      signals search intentions with Overture poach: Microsoft has hired
    Paul Ryan, a former CTO of pay-per-click search firm Overture Services, to
  lead its push into search technology
 
  - A
    Platform Switch In Search Of A Killer App: A week after Microsoft took
    the wraps off Windows Longhorn, software developers are cogitating on one
    key question:
    What's the killer app?
 
  - Game
    Over for Microsoft Critics?: The game clock has almost expired for Massachusetts
    and a handful of other holdouts who continue to insist that Microsoft's landmark
    antitrust settlement with the federal government isn't working.
 
  - Microsoft
    locks down intellectual property: Microsoft today is making available
    a security component of Windows Server 2003 that aims to help IT administrators
    seeking
    ways to control intellectual property within an enterprise.
 
  - Microsoft, IBM
    Put Intel Outside: Microsoft and Sony may be the
    leading competitors in video game consoles, but apart from any strategy
    to leverage them into a broader yet unproven entertainment platform,
    the machines themselves bleed money. Many investors believe that the inside
    of the
    boxes contains the more tangible return.
 
  - Microsoft's
    Server OS Market Growing: While Microsoft faces a number of lesser competitors,
    the software giant continues to garner share in server operating system markets.
 
  - Security--why don't we
    get it?: I know this statement seems unbelievable to anyone who spent
    hours cleaning up after these worms. But the cold truth is that these worms
    barked
    more loudly than they bit.
 
 
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