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With the holiday season fast approaching many of us will soon begin frantically searching the internet to find the cheapest airfare available to book that last minuet trip back home. In the past, when I’ve begun my search I’ve always went to Kayak.com . Kayak does a great job of scraping almost every airline website and sites similar to it such as Hotwire, Expedia and Travelocity. Even though I know Kayak is searching all of these sites for me, even after it gives me the best available rate, I’m still always left with the question “If I buy this ticket tomorrow will it be cheaper?”. Up until this point there has been no easy way to answer this question without testing your luck and holding off on purchasing your ticket… until today.

Since we have posted our review of the Office 2010 Technical Preview, Microsoft has now released their public beta. Anyone can now download a (completely legal) copy here. This version should hopefully prove to hold more stable then the technical preview.

Via NeoWin

I’m not sure how but Microsoft has somehow pulled a fast one on me. I’m usually pretty quick on the uptake when it comes to new technologies even if I don’t have direct access to material, yet somehow Microsoft got this one past me; well played Gates, well played…

As you probably have already seen, Office 2010 is well underway and in “technical beta” primarily used for developers, and as you’ve also probably seen, its been leaked (coulda’ called that one). Well as soon as I found out about this I had to get a hands on view of 2010 myself. From what I have played with, these are some of the more notable features that caught my eye. Feel free to comment on anything I missed that deserves attention.

So at the end of each week here at ThruIT, we will review interesting stories related to IT policy and law from around the globe. Or, at the very least we’ll post whichever quasi-interesting policy stories have turned up on Gizmodo.

At any rate, two standout items this week are the patenting of a particular flavor of the “sudo” UNIX command by Microsoft, and the MPAA-forced shutdown of a municipal WiFi network over one illegal download.

Ok Microsoft, keep it in you pants. We get it. We’re all excited about your new OS Windows 7 despite the fact that it should have been this way when Vista came out. But Windows 8? Aren’t we getting a little ahead of ourselves?

That’s right my friends, Windows 8, and its not just a rumor. At an Italian Windows Server conference, Microsoft revealed a road map for upcoming releases, and guess what made the cut. Yup, Windows 8. If look closely at the road map you’ll even see an approximate, and i stress approximate, release date of 2012ish.