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We're implementing a sea change in our commenting policy here at openDemocracy. For a long time, we've allowed anybody to comment on our articles, and while this has brought a very high level of debate to the site on some issues, it has failed to really provide conversation between you, our readers, and the authors and editorial staff who comprise openDemocracy as a publisher.

We'd love to change that, and we hope that our new commenting system is going to achieve that goal. We'll be moving all comments posted on articles over to be completely moderated, initially by our editorial team here in the office, as well as some authors, but increasingly by the community itself.

Microsoft has, apparently out of the blue, released technical details of most of its largest selling products which will allow competing companies and open source developers to create software that integrates far better with the Seattle company’s solutions. For example, Microsoft has released full details of the file storage formats it has used for its Office products, and has committed to allowing developers to be able to add new format functionality to the software.

Wikileaks, the shadowy but seemingly genuine service for hosting leaked government and corporate documents, suffered a serious setback yesterday, when a US court forced their internet provider to remove their address records from their servers.