Will Microsoft limit Office 11 access?. The first beta of Office 11 runs only on Windows 2000 and XP, possibly setting the stage for Microsoft to drop support for four earlier versions of Windows. [CNET News.com]

Microsoft: You Need Permission to Sell Our Software. IEEEmember writes “Microsoft has objected to the sale of bankrupt KMart’s Bluelight.com Internet unit to United Online. Microsoft’s objection to the sale is … [Slashdot]
Extra Credit: What’s the legal responsiblities that bluelight has to United Online if they used GPL code?
Hint: I don’t think that the answer is “none”.

Microsoft class-action suit dismissed. A federal appeals court in Virginia dismisses a class-action suit against Microsoft, HP and Dell. The judges rule that there’s no proof of any anti-competitive activity. [CNET News.com]

AIM, ICQ to interoperate. AOL says it will allow its next version of AIM to communicate with ICQ, a surprise move that will topple the long-standing barrier between the two popular IM services. [CNET News.com]

Jon Udell: “The Xopus demo is, indeed, an eye-opener.” [Scripting News]
Editing the Page intelligently on the page.

Real opens source but keeps its crown jewels. Bid for ubiquity [The Register]

With Allies Likely and Unlikely, U.S. Navy Stems Flow of Iraqi Oil. The United States and its allies, with quiet help from Iran, have all but shut off the flow of illegal Iraqi oil in the Persian Gulf. By Michael R. Gordon. [New York Times: Politics]

digitalMASS: Microsoft Tablet PC technology a stroke of genius. It’s been several years since Microsoft decided that future portable computers would be slate-like tablets, controlled by a stylus rather than a keyboard. It’s taken this long for the company to get the software together and to work with computer makers on the necessary hardware. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Media Center PCs unleashed. Sunday newspaper ads reveal details of Media Center PCs that Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard plan to unveil Tuesday. [CNET News.com]
Way to high end for the market?

SJ Mercury: Tools coming for connecting information. Dan Gillmor. But we need more sophisticated methods for gathering, massaging and making connections among all the pieces of information that enter our lives each day — everything from e-mail to Web pages to phone numbers and more. So when I see useful tools, I pay attention. [Tomalak’s Realm]