6. XP SP3 cripples some PCs with endless reboots: Windows XP Service Pack 3 causes some PCs to get stuck in endless reboots, according to messages posted at a Microsoft support forum, where users are expressing their endless frustration.

7. Google grilled on human rights: Google's human rights record dominated discussion at the annual shareholder's meeting, where two proposals that called for the company to change its policies were nevertheless voted down. Google has been criticized for the way it conducts business in China, where it complies with government censorship. The company insists that is what it must do to have a presence in China and contends that it's better to do that and be able provide at least some information to Internet users in China than to be forbidden to do business there at all.

8. Intel, OLPC affordable laptop bout only hurts users: A little food for thought in the week, on the heels of the May 2 news that Charles Kane was named president and chief operating officer of the One Laptop Per Child Project, which has been beset with some level or other of turmoil and change for sometime now, including the acrimonious split of the Intel-OLPC partnership a few months back. As the project seeks to right itself and stay on track, columnist Ken Banks reminds us of the bigger picture -- a child in a developing country "doesn't particularly care where their laptop comes from, what principles were applied in its design or development or who's right or wrong in the 'battle of the paradigms.' All they want is an education, ideally aided by the occasional brush with computer technology in some shape or form. Sometimes, we just need to remind ourselves of the bigger picture." Can we get an "Amen" on that?

9. Sun provides JavaFX road map: At this week's JavaOne conference, Sun put a bright spotlight on JavaFX, even providing some firm product delivery dates. JavaFX, which allows application development across multiple types of interface (including devices), is Sun's entry into the burgeoning RIA space and will be a competitor to Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash. Sun promises that the JavaFX Desktop SDK Early Access Program will launch in July with JavaFX Desktop 1.0 shipping in the fall.

10. Vista as insecure as Windows 2000: Windows Vista is supposed to be the most secure Microsoft operating system with the least potential for vulnerabilities, but, alas, it still racked up 639 unique vulnerabilities over about the last half year. Windows 2000, on the other hand, had 586 vulnerabilities in the same stretch. That means Vista didn't have a whole lot more vulneratibilities than Windows 2000, but users may wish to cast this as either good news or bad news. As this week's news bears out -- it really is all about perspective.