Source: Alastair Otter, MyBroadband.co.za

There are a couple of moments in Microsoft's long history that will be remembered as when the company changed forever. One of those is, naturally, when Bill Gates handed over the reins. The other will be the day that Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, leaves the building.

Ozzie was widely regarded as a potential successor to Steve Ballmer as CEO, a position held by only one other person: Bill Gates. But earlier this week, in a distinctly low-key announcement, Ballmer said that Ozzie was moving on. No specific reasons were given for Ozzie's move, nor details on what he will do next.

By Cade Metz, TheRegister.co.uk

Wikileaks has released nearly 400,000 classified US military documents involving the Iraq War, defying warnings from the US government that disclosing the documents would put lives at risk.

Dubbed "the Irag War Logs." the documents were posted to the whistleblower site at around 21:00 GMT on Friday, after they were released to various news organizations across the globe. According to the The Guardian, the documents show that US commanders ignored evidence of torture by Iraqi police and soldiers and that more than 15,000 civilians died in incidents that weren't previously reported.

During OpenOffice.org's tenth anniversary, Oracle announced it will participate in ODF Plugfest, one of the conferences aimed at furthering the Open Document Format interoperability, held October 14 - 15 in Brussels . Oracle also stated they would continue developing, improving, and releasing OpenOffice.org as open source software.

A programmer who worked for the Federal National Mortgage Association, better known as Fannie Mae, was convicted Monday on a charge that he tried to destroy data on the organization's nearly 5,000 servers.

Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, 36, was found guilty by a federal jury on a single charge of computer intrusion, according to court filings, and statements by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney in Maryland.