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Microsoft has decided to be a supplier of the OpenID service (distributed identity management system in the internet), integrating it with its Windows Live ID.
What are the benefits of the OpenID? It allows you to use the same user profile in different services, shops or online portals. You really keep your profile in the place of your choice. OpenID is currently gaining popularity and Microsoft's decision is certainly an important element in the standard promotion among internet users. Microsoft joins such companies as Yahoo, AOL, Google, MySpace and the BBC.

The new stable version of the lightweight Xfce desktop environment for Unix systems has been released. The latest version consists mainly of the patches, fixing bugs found in the previous software versions. Translations are also updated. To learn more about the changes in the current release see the changelog.
Xfce 4.4.3 is available on the official website of the project in source code form as well as binary packages for several Linux distributions.

Despite the fact that Windows 7 has not yet been released, Microsoft took care of its security publishing a security patch for the new beta version of Windows 7. Although the PDC 2008 conference participants will get Windows 7 Milestone 3 build 6801 tomorrow, the fix is already available. Patching fresh system may seem strange, but it must be remembered that this is the beta version, so underdeveloped by definition. In addition, early versions of Windows 7 are very similar to Vista, so they need the same patches.

The new edition of the one of the most popular programs for searching, sharing and downloading music and movies from network has been released. The seventh edition of BearShare has a lot of changes, fixes and new features that make working with the application more convenient and pleasant. The new release brings improved graphical user interface, together with a set of skins, enhanced media files player and a lot of new functions, which greatly expand its possibilities. The new features include: new communicator, parental control and the ability to burn MP3 files directly to disc.

Yahoo has informed about giving up the development of a special version of its Communicator Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista. The version was once very popular - one of the first applications that use the full capabilities of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - a built-in platform for developers to handle the user interface, in order to obtain rich graphical effects. Yahoo! says that the priority is to provide equally good version of Communicator in any system. In practice, however, the most likely factor was the low popularity of Yahoo Messenger for Vista.