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. Technology Industry