Googlebombing, and Microsoft as Cerberus

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Sep 30, 20052 mins

Notes from the field: The always enigmatic Robert X. Cringely uncovers the truth about President W’s failure status on Google and Microsoft’s metamorphosis into Cerberus, that multi-beast guarding Hades. Oh yes, and he’ll tell you all about Googlebombing.

Special Report: Microsoft has launched a slew of new products and restructured itself in what Oliver Rist called its “widest ranging, best coordinated assault in a long time.” Microsoft’s Back Office Blitz looks at what exactly that entails, and how it impacts the enterprise. The full online package also includes a Q&A with Bill Gates and an overview of the new Windows Workflow Foundation.

The news beat: BEA Systems touts ‘Daybreak,’ a forthcoming version of its WebLogic Workshop application development tool, but the promised smoother transition poses challenges, the mobile industry focuses on handsets for the poor, and a tech exec speaking at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee says that peer-to-peer networking companies will disappear.

Columnists’ Corner: Roger Grimes has something to disclose: He won’t back away from controversy. Take this week’s installment of Security Adviser, for instance. There he takes a stance on the full disclosure debate about security bugs that, in past years, only bad-code-perpetuating enemies of his utopian world would have taken. Grimes has not completely switched over, mind you, it’s just that “the practical reality of history has challenged” his original beliefs.