News.com Daily Podcast: The shape of Windows to come

Microsoft's touching OS news; new congressional Internet row over China; live and in color--it's Mars!
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CNET News.com's Ina Fried is at The Wall Street Journal's D6 conference in Carlsbad, Calif., this week where she caught Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's sneak peek at the next incarnation of Windows with a multitouch interface--and that's triggered keen interest in the blogosphere.

News.com's Declan McCullagh has the latest on a looming political confrontation over setting rules of the road for Silicon Valley's dealing with restrictive regimes.

Now that the unmanned mission to Mars has landed without a hitch, the space probe has begun sending back photos--and you can find them at News.com.