ODF wins the document format war within Microsoft? Accompanying Microsoft’s announcement that it will support ODF is an even bigger surprise: its own OOXML is being put on the back burner. That’s a big step toward shaking off Microsoft’s dominance of the office software market. Related: Microsoft’s embrace of ODF cautiously welcomed. A U.S. House subcommittee questions whether the organization charged with regulating electrical suppliers is painting a rosy and misleading picture of the U.S. electrical system’s readiness for cyber attacks. Lawmakers see cyber threats to electrical grid. Firefox maker Mozilla says it is targeting a 3.1 release for later this year, at which point it plans to inject a number of nearly complete features it held back from the 3.0 iteration, including XMLHttpRequest, an API used by JavaScript to transfer XML and other data between clients and servers. With ActiveResponse 5.1 Cassatt links server power management to real-time demands such that customers can address the power that servers waste while idling and help curb those expenses as well. Savings can easily be substantial and scale according to the number of machines a company has. And anti-malware group StopBadware.org scolds Apple over a Safari ‘carpet bomb’ and asks that the company reconsider its refusal to address a flaw in its Web browser that could allow attackers to automatically download files onto a would-be victim’s system. Software Development