Microsoft is preparing to unwrap a new service, Live Mesh. The software giant late last week circulated an invite to what it dubbed the “Get Mesh” event at next week’s Web 2.0 Expo, and says it will launch Live Mesh at the show.AOL snaps up Sphere for its technology that enables publishers to aggregate content based on related subjects, such as video, audio, and blog posts, to increase advertising exposure by driving page views. Researchers from the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University in the U.K. find that Microsoft’s CAPTCHA is easy to solve, though details are scarce on how hackers are doing so in great numbers. MacBook and MacBook Pro users are angry at laptop graphics glitches and have been complaining in Apple’s forums; the company says it is investigating. And while some argue that the need to maintain backward compatibility is inhibiting Windows from moving forward, Randall Kennedy is not among them. Instead, he advocates a best-of-both-worlds scenario that would enable Microsoft to isolate troublesome legacy apps and actively evolve the native runtime. Solving legacy Windows compatibility problems. Software Development