Intel is expected to unwrap Centrino 2 on Monday. The processor will bring speedier performance and faster wireless connectivity to laptops. While Microsoft shines a bright light on hosted online services, partners contend that its pricing structure will cause disruption when customers realize that Microsoft has left the necessary add-ons, integrations, customizations, support and maintenance to partners. Experts: Microsoft’s online service push has holes. Team Redmond, meanwhile, fixes a month-old snafu in WSUS that prohibited customers from getting security updates through its Windows Server Update Services for the past several weeks. Thus far, though, the patch is available only as a manual download. Next-generation search systems will feature techniques for mapping sentences to logical expressions and could apply to arbitrary sentences on the Web, a speaker at IBM’s “The New AI: New Paradigms for Using Computers Workshop.” AI tied to the future of search. The event also showcased several projects in the AI and machine learning spaces. And Robert X. Cringely shares reader accounts of an automatic Windows Update earlier this week broke Zone Alarm on their clients’ systems. “The good news: This is one problem that doesn’t affect Vista users.” Microsoft to Zone Alarm: Bite me. Technology Industry