News to know: Microsoft patches; Office 14; Intuit; SAP

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Mary Jo Foley: Office 14: The (near) silence is deafening
Ryan Naraine: Hackers exploiting (unpatched) IE 7 flaw to launch drive-by attacks
- MS Patch Tuesday whopper: 28 vulnerabilities in Windows, IE, Office
- Dancho Danchev: Vint Cerf's Twitter account hacked, suspended for spam
Larry Dignan: Intuit's TurboTax printing fees raise users' ire
- CNET News: Which tax-prep service can you afford?
Dennis Howlett: Breaking: SAP maintenance price hike: partial victory
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 69xx builds - Coming along nicely!
- Windows 7 build 6956 (right)
- Could Snow Leopard leave Windows 7 eating its dust?
- Ed Bott: DirecTV kills its Media Center tuner project
John Morris: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Laptop picks by the inch
- Andrew Nusca: Lenovo: PC industry consolidation coming, acquisitions possible
- Acer trumps Asus as netbook king
- Lenovo slashes IdeaPad S10 prices
- Are Apple's new Macbooks 'cranky'?
Paul Murphy: Creating a sales infrastructure for Sun
News.com: HP laptops to sport long-lasting ‘Enviro’ batteries
Sean Portnoy: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Three Ultimate HDTVs
Matthew Miller: Skype Lite now available for some S60 devices
- Smartphone purchasing considerations to help you this holiday season
- Want a subsidized Acer netbook for $99?
- Larry Dignan: Android needs more U.S. carrier support
- Open Handset Alliance announces 14 new members
- AT&T testing Femtocells to boost in-home cell phone signals
Kingsley-Hughes: 300GB 2.5" SAS drives from HP
Jason O'Grady: Apple should add books to the iTunes Store
Dancho Danchev: With or without McColo, spam volume increasing again
Dana Blankenhorn: Go med young man
Michael Krigsman: Preventing failure with third-party IT watchdogs [podcast]
Larry Dignan: Forrester: 2009 IT spending will be anemic with a 2010 bounce
Richard Koman: British watchdog backs down over Wikipedia image of nude girl
Paul Miller: Zemanta talks Linked Data with SDK and commercial API
Sam Diaz: There is an e-mail revolution underway; Google raises stakes against online Outlook
- Google launches to-do lists; You'd think an email revolution was underway
- Ryan Stewart: Native Client: Google's (other) plugin play
Paula Rooney: Springsource, VMware partner to create enterprise Java VMs, appliances
- Microsoft debuts early test version of Oxite open source blogging engine
- Dan Kusnetzky: IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeating
NYT: Mumbai Terrorists Relied on New Technology for Attacks
Phil Wainewright: NetSuite rises in land of the sun
Dana Gardner: Remote support offers enterprises avenue to cut operational costs while improving IT systems reliability
Sony: What went wrong (and is still going wrong)
Zack Whittaker: University music tax: sharing and caring?
Adam O'Donnell: Think tank releases cybersecurity roadmap for Obama administration
Walmart iPhone deal could be big for Apple
PE Hub Blog: Ex-VC Joins Google's M&A Department
Christopher Dawson: Will Virgin Killer be a Wikipedia killer?