Microsoft continues to take a confrontational stance.

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?

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

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.

Not only is Siemens investing $7.2 million to build this new manufacturing and testing facility, the company is also creating good jobs that will support families. Siemens Energy&Automation is part of a global company, and one that has decided Pennsylvania is the place to be to do business.