One day before the Hallmark holiday, a new Storm worm is whirling around the ‘Net, trying to lure users with the promise of a card to download. Not quite as bloody as Al Capone’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, this modern attack will try to steal personal information from your PC, disarm security defenses, and tap it to send millions of junk e-mails, at least according to Symantec. Attendees at Microsoft’s Office developer conference this week are learning how to leverage new capabilities in Office System, including the ribbon-based Fluent UI. But even those drinking the KoolAid and calling the development platform “excellent” are finding some difficulties. The E.C.’s raid of Intel’s Munich offices is but the latest instance in related cases facing the chipmaker over the past two decades. It all began in 1990 when microprocessor Cyrix accused Intel of unlawful exclusionary practices. Intel and antitrust: A brief history. This week’s Blackberry service outage, the second such disruption is less than a year, has given RIM a black eye. Analyst house Gartner, in fact, told its clients not to rely on Blackberrys alone for critical e-mail. Since yesterday was Patch Tuesday, Microsoft marked the occasion with a massive set of fixes addressing 17 flaws, including the known ActiveX bug, and others that affect XP, Vista, Server 2003, Office, Word. And the now ubiquitous markup language XML turns 10. As such, the W3C is planning to honor the year XML was first recommended as a specification by distributing related items at events, and posting a video series of interviews with people in the XML community. Security