Microsoft Corp. has decided to drop two features from its next-generation Office suite for Windows, which is due to ship next year. After evaluating feedback from Beta 2 of Office 10, Microsoft has made a decision not to include the Office Designer tool and Local Web Storage System in the final product, company officials confirmed. Microsoft said these two features were not reliable and of high enough quality to make it into the shipping product. Full story. -- Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet News
