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<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot:
* A Microsoft-sponsored open source project will [release][1] [Open Document Format][2] plugins for [Office 2007][3] today. The plugins will work with Office versions 2003, XP, and 2007. For now the converts are only for Word documents, but work is underway for Excel and Powerpoint.
[1]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter "MS ODF converters"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72403-0.html?tw=rss.index "MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72596-0.html?tw=wn_index_7 "Blue Ribbon Debut for Office 2007"
* Viacom is demanding that YouTube [remove all copies][4] of Viacom-owned content from the popular online video site. The take down request comes after Viacom and YouTube fail to reach an agreement. There are currently about 100,000 video clips from Viacom-owned properties, including MTV Networks and BET, on YouTube.
[4]: 1http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-02-02T155720Z_01_WEN3495_RTRUKOC_0_US-VIACOM-YOUTUBE.xml&WTmodLoc=TechNewsHome_C1_%5bFeed%5d-2 "Viacom demands YouTube pull down videos"
* In the good old days even Bill Gates used to say that piracy helped MS by getting people addicted to its software, but then Gates jumped on the anti-piracy bandwagon. Yesterday Romanian President Traian Basescu [told Gates][5], "Piracy helped the young generation discover computers. It set off the development of the IT industry in Romania." Gates was less than thrilled.
[5]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020100715.html "Piracy worked for us, Romania president tells Gates"
* In what Digg founder Kevin Rose [says][6] is an attempt to combat Digg gaming, Digg will no longer be listing top users.
[6]: http://blog.digg.com/?p=60 "A couple updates"
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