It looks a bit like Microsoft stalling for time, as it readies for the bigger battle.

This is a very powerful tool, potentially with a bidirectional metaphor. It's indexing all this stuff on your desktop and doing something on the Web. Who's to say that's not a potential breach?

Microsoft continues to take a confrontational stance.

IBM understands that a lot of important business collaboration occurs across enterprise boundaries.

This kind of cross-organization coordination will become increasingly important. A distributed world requires distributed approaches to security.

But when the house reassembled for a third time, the chief minister remained a mute spectator and did not bother to move the confidence motion even as Congress members, including some ministers, were shouting slogans and passing sweeping remarks against the chair.