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 We've got some shorts for you today as there are lots of little pieces of news
around: 
  - Microsoft
      global document router: Australia will be among the first places
    where Microsoft will launch its Microsoft Business Network, a subscription
    site for
    routing
  XML business documents.
 
  - Web Services
    Sky Is 'Indigo': Microsoft Corp. introduced many new technologies at
    its Professional Developers Conference last week, but few are more of a departure
    for the company than a Web services infrastructure code-named Indigo.
 
  - MS
        rebuffed in Google take-over bid: 
      The New York Times and Australian news siteSMH report that Internet search
    leader Google has rejected a takeover bid from Microsoft.
 
  - 5
        years ago… Microsoft denies Linux threat: Microsoft's UK Windows
        marketing manager, Nick McGrath, has denied rumours that the company
        is feeling threatened
    by up-and-coming open source software (OSS) products such as Linux and Apache.
 
 
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