Intel says that mobile Internet Devices will work with both Windows Vista and XP — a noteworthy proclamation because MIDs are due about the same time Microsoft has said XP will no longer be available, June 30. Related: Windows XP to get reprieve for low-cost laptops, source says. Q&A: Why the Vista hacker turned to eBay. Shane Macualay put the Windows Vista machine he hacked up for auction, claiming it would serve as a live example of a typical incident response rather than a canned one, but eBay said it had to come down because it could harm users. Microsoft won’t up its bid for Yahoo, according to a report that quotes a source saying the software giant has no need to bid against itself and will stick to its guns. Even though ISO members voted to approve Microsoft’s Office Open XML, the company will have to wait before it can lay its hands on a copy of a formal ISO standard for the format. And an Intel executive says that programming for multicore chips is a challenge and recommends that developers ‘future-proof’ their code. Software Development