Best of the blogs: Victor Garza looks at Strata Guard Free — a new open source version of Strata’s IDS/IPS product, and includes a podcast interview with Strata CTO Mitchell Ashley, in Zero Day. The news beat: A blogger who follows Microsoft posted an entry suggesting that it will issue a second beta of Windows Vista in April. Google, Lenovo and Sun fund the Stopbadware Coalition, a non profit group dedicated to fighting spam, malware and viruses. And SAP says its software revenue will increase up to 17 percent in 2006. Columnists’ corner: The fear that everyone might not understand how to use a radically different GUI is holding the industry back, opines Jon Udell in The high-performance GUI. Holding us back from exactly what? Augmenting human capability. Search: Microsoft defends its decision to surrender search data to the Feds and insists it did so in a way that does not compromise customer privacy. Google, meanwhile, launches a censored search service in China. Security