• It's more than five years since George Bush announced his plan to go back to the Moon by 2020 - but now Barack Obama has killed the plan, saying Nasa money should be spent on other projects instead. Personally? I'm disappointed: Obama's plans, for now at least, don't really seem to include human space exploration of any sort, meaning an end to Constellation, the successor to the Space Shuttle programme. It may be pragmatic dream killed off.
• The browser wars continue apace, according to new figures from NetMarketShare. Internet Explorer has dropped to 62% of the market, with Firefox down to 24% and Google's Chrome up to just over 5%. Internet Explorer 8 is now apparently the most popular version of IE, outstripping IE6 (finally).
• And after plenty of talk and testing, Microsoft has finally opened its Azure cloud computing platform. ZDNet has some more. Used it?
