The Windows Live Search has gotten another overhaul now, and they’ve taken a little bit of a different slant on what their home page looks like as you can see from the screen shot.
Along with a new background, which I’ve yet to figure out if you can change it to something else you would like. If you hover over certain sections Microsoft kinds of leads you on the types of information you can search for and use with Live Search.
Most of the settings you’ve come to expect from customizing your search experience is available: filtering, language, number of results, …read more

According to Richard Koman at ZDNet, in a recent phone call and press release from Microsoft, the Redmond giant made it official that in their upcoming Office SP2 release the productivity suite will make open document formats available natively from within the core application. No add-ons, updates or 3rd party apps required.
Big news on the open document format front: Microsoft announced (press release) minutes ago (actually about 18 hours early, since someone broke their embargo) that Office SP2 will include native, “first-class citizen” support for the open source Open Document Format, as well as Adobe’s PDF and the XML Paper …read more

This is one that I really thought would happen. I didn’t think it would happen easily or exactly quickly, but I thought it would eventually get approved and move forward.
Part of me thinks this could still be in the overall strategy though. The YHOO stock price has already dropped to $24 from it’s 52-week high of $34.
What do you think? Could it be that Microsoft will come back in a few weeks or a couple of months and offer a little less than their original offer, getting Yahoo! for an even greater deal through an official hostile takeover? …read more

Syntagma Media has the scoop on Mary Jo Foley changing some blogging locations. She’ll be leaving Ziff Davis Media and will now be blogging for ZDNet specifically.
Mary Jo is probably most known for her work on Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley.
Mary Jo talks about her move personally here, Greetings, Microsoft Watchers!