Windows, post-Seinfeld; WGA earns passing grade; Office 2.0 [TECH UPDATE]

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Microsoft's WGA finally earns a passing grade (barely)
Ed Bott: When Microsoft launched its Windows Genuine Advantage in the summer of 2006, the anti-piracy program was a disaster. Two years later, has Microsoft finally gotten WGA right? Or at least good enough?
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Office 2.0: Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List

-->Sam Diaz: At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco Google delivers a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprise that many of the tasks on this list revolve around the search giant's cloud offerings.
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See also: All Chrome coverageIs Microsoft putting Windows 7 on a diet?

Mary Jo Foley: As part of Microsoft's mission to insure
that Windows 7 and Windows Live Wave 3 are joined at
the hip, Microsoft is exorcising features that used to be
part of Windows from the operating system.
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Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help Windows brand?
Mary Jo Foley: A day after launching the first ad in its $300 million consumer-focused make-over campaign, Microsoft is going public with some of the other planned Windows-branding fixes it has in the pipeline.
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Seinfeld & Gates: Was this ad supposed to be funny?
First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?
Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?
Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space
Should the Empire strike back?
Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops
Andrew Nusca: The laptops are being recalled because improperly placed wires near the hinge connecting the body of the laptop and its display could wear quickly, causing a short circuit and overheating.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Sony Vaio TZ recalled due to overheating
John Morris: Sony announces three all-in-one desktops
My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook
Dana Blankenhorn: The Asus EeePC is silent, it's easy to use, it runs Mozilla, Open Office and wireless networking expertly. No one needs to know it's Linux. It's light as a feather.
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Linux netbook buyers are cheap and plentiful
Larry Dignan: Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XP
Wireless Access: What Price Speed

-->Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Is Verizon missing a trick in its trench warfare with Cablevision? Or has the maverick cable operator found an Achilles heel in the telephone operator's methods of providing TV, phone and particularly Internet access to customers in the New York area -- and possibly nationwide?
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Windows 7: Faster boots?
Mary Jo Foley: Although Microsoft seems to be providing as few promises as possible about its next operating system, the company did dangle one tangible tidbit. Can Microsoft get Windows 7's boot time to under 15 seconds?
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