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Android: Exciting, but not iPhone exciting
Sam Diaz: There's excitement around today's expected launch of Google's mobile OS, but I won't consider switching to T-Mobile the way I considered switching to AT&T for the iPhone. Why would I? In many ways, my phone is already a Google phone.
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Microsoft: Replacing applets with services

-->Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7's mail, photo-management and movie-maker subsystems are all being replaced by optionally installable Windows Live equivalents.
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Oracle unveils Beehive
Larry Dignan: At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, President Charles Phillips announces the release of Beehive, an open, integrated communications system that includes instant messaging, video conferencing, and e-mail.
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The new adventures of Christine's old PC
Jason Perlow: A Windows XP to Vista migration is no a trivial task. My plan: Use VMWare Converter to do a P2V conversion of her entire system, and run it as a virtual machine within VMWare Player on the new computer. The problem: In order to P2V the existing system, the patient had to be stabilized.
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How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista?

-->Ed Bott: Are the millions and millions of customers out in the cold when Windows 7 comes out? Will Microsoft step up to the plate as its done in the past?
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Search 2.0: Compromising privacy for better results?

-->Sam Diaz: There's no argument here that Google delivers too many results. And, we're all being studied and tracked out there in cyberspace somewhere. But it's one thing to suspect that it's going on and another to manually install the tools that allow it to go on.
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