Thursday, April 11, 2002|
Microsoft Has Shelved Its Internet 'Persona' Service. Microsoft has quietly shelved a consumer information service that was once planned as the centerpiece of the company's foray into the market for tightly linked Web services. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] From Slashdot:
 Posted by michael on Wednesday April 10, @11:33PMfrom the partly-sunny dept. Dephex Twin writes "According to a NYTimes article: due to lack of 3rd-party support for Microsoft's "Persona" (originally codenamed "Hailstorm"), the company has been forced to dump the project. It seems the companies didn't like having a middleman between them and the consumers. As a person worried about the future with .NET, this is a bit of a relief." 1:26:26 PM 
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Microsoft Gives Up on Hailstorm|
Group blasts Amazon's used-book sales. By "aggressively promoting" sales of used books on its site, the company is snatching money out of authors' pockets, says the Authors Guild. [CNET News.com] 1:21:47 PM
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Groove updates peer-to-peer software. The start-up is set to release a new version of its collaboration and instant messaging software. "E-mail is not a tool that really works for group discussions," an exec says. [CNET News.com] 1:21:35 PM
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