Columnists’ Corner: Sure, it’s dangerous. But that won’t stop Oliver Rist from knocking on Microsoft’s door in search of clues that just might help him piece together the ostensibly discrete and unrelated acquisitions and mid-market, vertical and back-office product announcements Microsoft has made of late. The truth about Microsoft is out there. Security: Internet users are more complacent than ever about security threats, notes Victor Garza in Zero Day, though it’s doubtful that the teen who hacked Paris Hilton’s sidekick is complacent about anything after receiving an 11-month sentence. Garza points out in a separate post that even after that highly-publicized hack, the Web front-end for the T-Mobile phone system still doesn’t appear to be fixed. Special Report: Microsoft opens its tool chest. Inside you’ll find stories on three new products: Windows Workflow Foundation, a design tool dubbed Expression, and LINQ, which stands for .Net Language Integrated Query. Q&A: What began as a podcast is now also a transcribed interview in which Bill Gates speaks with Jon Udell about Office 12, Vista, and CLR. But not without talking a little Napoleon Dynamite first. Technology Industry