AP - Marc Andreessen, an entrepreneur and software engineer behind the Web's earliest browsers, has joined the board of the online hangout Facebook. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Adobe Systems on Tuesday announced a new initiative with Google and Yahoo to improve search results for dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). -- read full article
PC Magazine - Four months after the software giant bowed to European Commission antitrust investigators and pledged to provide greater access to some of its key software products, Microsoft on Monday provided details on how it is putting those promises into place. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - NetSuite is the latest software-as-a-service vendor supported by Cast Iron integration appliances, which are billed as supporting application integration through configuration rather than coding. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft will no longer make Windows XP available to large computer makers, such as Dell, Lenovo, or Hewlett-Packard, or to software retailers. -- read full article
NewsFactor - An era ended Monday. The first day of Steve Ballmer's occupation of the corner office at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, WA., also marked the last day for Windows XP. -- read full article
NewsFactor - In a move to compete with Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony is set to release the PlayStation 3 software update 2.40 on Wednesday. -- read full article
TechWeb - Microsoft marks the end of an era as Bill Gates and Windows XP -- two icons of the company at its zenith -- head for the sunset. Can Redmond survive this transitional moment, or will June 30 be the day Microsoft died? -- read full article
AP - Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.
AFP - Bill Gates is spending his last day at Microsoft Friday before turning his attention full time to philanthropy after decades spent building the US software colossus.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - As Bill Gates packs up his "#1 software architect" mug and prepares to leave his daily duties at Microsoft, we take a look at the character traits that put him on top of the software industry. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Version 2.0 enhances current VMware virtualization software and will add support for managing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environments by the end of the year. -- read full article
