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Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie ‘Morro’ Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft kills off Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription services Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft to deliver free anti-malware to Windows users Adam O’Donnell: What really happened to the candidates’ computers?

Yahoo said Friday that it will discontinue stand-alone downloads of Yahoo Messenger for Vista. The official reasoning: We have discontinued stand-alone releases of the Yahoo!

Messenger for Vista application in order to focus on delivering one Windows experience that is optimized for all Windows users.

Translation 1: Vista apparently isn’t special enough to have its own Yahoo Messenger.

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates Compare and contrast gallery (right).

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” beta - making life easier for Windows users Nate McFeters: Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 2 Heather Clancy: Not just hot air: Some details on Dell’s server thermal design Phil Wainewright: Customization: curse or blessing?

Apple has started offering Windows users its Safari 3.1 Web browser through the same online updater it utilizes for iTunes and the QuickTime video player.

With the release of Safari 3.1 on Tuesday, Apple started giving Windows users the option of downloading Safari via the Apple Software Update ...

Apple on Tuesday announced that version 3.1 of its Safari browser is available for both Mac and Windows users.

The Web browser now supports a number of new Web standards: HTML 5's latest audio and video tags, as well as CSS Animations.

Apple claims that page load times ...