Going back in time on the HTML issue, this is the whitepaper explaining the benefits of Office Outlook 2007.

The Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog provides the official response and reasoning behind the decision to continue using Word to render HTML citing the benefit of using "a familiar and powerful tool".

After apparently asking users for their opinion, Microsoft has decided to ignore them. E-mail displayed in Outlook will continue to use Word to render HTML.

Vista was such a bust that Microsoft thinks you should pay them twice just to get rid of it? Or is that three times since you paid to downgrade to XP? $120 to change from Vista to Win7 just feels expensive.

Once again Microsoft is being accused by a "lesser known" firm of copying their product and rebranding it as a Microsoft product. This time Kayak claims Microsoft copied their search engine and named it Bing.

The non-upgrade version of Windows 7 Home Premium will cost you $199. The upgrade, from Vista or XP, $119. But. If you pre-order during the next two weeks you can get up to half off that price. Of course, if you don’t want to "pay" for Windows 7, you can buy a new PC before October 22 and upgrade from Vista for "free".

Reminder: Microsoft does not send out e-mails telling you to update your software. In case you’ve forgotten that, this article might help.

Despite getting more than 20,000 complaint Tweets in less than 24 hours, Microsoft is defending its decision to use MS Word to display HTML in Outlook.

We wanted to update you with ZATZ Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz’ latest on-the-air schedule for the next week, and spotlight a few appearances he’s made in the last few days. If you’re in the area or can find the broadcast online, feel free to tune in.<UL><LI>WDUN 550AM with Martha Zoller, Monday, July 6 at 10:30am <LI>CRN Digital Talk, Financial Talk Radio with Tim Connolly, June 26 at 10:05am ET <LI>WFTL 850AM with Russ Morley, Fort Lauderdale/Miami at June 26 at 7:12am <LI>KRLD, Dallas with Mark Watkins (broadcast time tbd) <LI>ABC TV, Thursday, June 25 (broadcast time tbd) <LI>NBC TV, Thursday, June 25 (broadcast time tbd) <LI>FOX News with Rick Levanthal, Wednesday June 18 at 4:30pm ET <LI>WDUN 550AM with Billy and Joel, Thursday, June 19 at 9:20am ET <LI>News Talk 550 KTSA with Chris Duel, Thursday, June 19 at 1:07pm ET <LI>WIST, 690am in New Orleans, Wednesday, June 24 at 11:05am ET</UL>David’s also been interviewed by a bunch of Web and print journalists. We’ll post links to those articles as they’re published.

One of the new features of VMware vSphere 4 is the VMware vCenter Orchestrator. This workflow automation engine is used to help automate your virtualized environment.