• Microsoft is taking square aim at online app providers (hello, Google) by launching preview versions of its Office 2010 web applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote all there. Mary Jo Foley has a handy FAQ on the subject.
• After we wondered whether the Palm Pre could lift the company out of its rut, the answer from the company's financial results ended up being inconclusive. The company kept its cards close to its chest, and simply said that the Pre made up the "vast majority" of 810,000 handsets the company sold in the last quarter. However, it also knocked down expectations for the next three months - which might not be good news for UK customers looking for a good deal when it comes out on O2 soon.
• If the fact that it's Friday isn't enough to perk you up, how about a couple of brilliant videos to get you going towards the weekend with some verve? They're from either end of the fluffy spectrum, but both just as amazing to me. First up, Jarbas Agnelli made a beautiful little tune out of a photograph of birds sitting on telephone wires that's great to watch. And for those of you who don't mind something a bit harder, Wired Science dug up some fantastic old British Medical Association videos on YouTube - including this one of 1930s brain surgery (warning: it is more than a little gory). Happy weekend!
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