1.   The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant also offered free Internet features to anyone who uses it.

2.   The shipping deadline has slipped, but the Redwood Shores database software giant remains deeply committed to the project.

3.   For a company in such a strong position, a strategic alliance with a software giant or with another major player in the computer world makes good commercial sense.

4.   Analysts such as Wu are convinced that Microsoft has bullied computer makers in the past, despite denials by the software giant.

5.   Among the technology stocks battered Monday was Microsoft, despite talk on Wall Street that the software giant would announce solid profits.

6.   Analysts were shocked in April when the software giant blew past their predictions.

7.   An e-mail message that helped a former Oracle Corp. employee in her wrongful termination suit against the computer software giant could now send her to jail.

8.   And software giants, such as Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., are building the tools to make it all work.

9.   And the software giant is not alone.

10.   And why is there no shortage of venom flowing between these two software giants?