Careers: A chief information officer writes to Bob Lewis because upper management does not like his style and is trying to phase him out. “Either there’s an approach to running IT that works for both you and the corporate office, or there isn’t,” Lewis writes in this Advice Line post. Either way, the ball is in the CIOs court. “It was up to you to work with the C.O. to either figure out how to make things work or to make other arrangements for yourself.” But lengthy transitions rarely make sense in the long run. The news beat: Microsoft pushes back the release date for Longhorn from year’s end to the first quarter of 2008. The One Laptop Per Child program faces a parts shortage but insists it’s manageable. And Sun says that coders are the key to Solaris’ rise. Notes from the field: It’s Friday and that means Cringe has the geek week in review. This time, its the human error that caused a glitch in Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage, reshuffled deck chairs on the ship Yahoo, and the dream that Apple has finally secured the Beatles catalog for iTunes. Best of the blogs: It’s a debate that harks back to middle school typing class for me. “Should everyone in IT take it upon themselves to learn to type?” Sean McCown poses in Don’t be such a pecker! “Working on a computer for a living and not learning to type is like becoming a surgeon and refusing to learn to sew people up.” There’s this guy in his department, you see, who cannot type without looking at the keys. Careers