Hosted team software

The head of Microsoft"s Windows Live Platform Services group offered late Wednesday an early description of services and tools that Microsoft will release at next week"s ***

Salesforce.com and Google launched a Web site on Tuesday that is designed to allow the online customer relationship management software maker to act as a reseller for Google"s AdWords. For Salesforce.com, the alliance expands its efforts to tie its hosted CRM software with Google AdWords, following its acquisition last year of privately held Kieden, which had created an add-on to Salesforce"s hosted services for purchasing and managing Google-driven ad campaigns. Salesforce. ***

update An online Microsoft meeting to discuss Windows Vista changes crashed shortly after it started Thursday, and Symantec and McAfee were unable to reconnect. Microsoft had scheduled the meeting with security companies to discuss part of the changes it has promised to make to Windows Vista in response to competitive concerns. ***