Friends pile on the extras .
Have they got a deal for you. In an effort to pump up sales of Microsoft's Office XP, its next-generation suite of productivity software, retailers and PC makers are offering a whole host of premiums and incentives. Go to the full story by Joe Wilcox. On Wednesday, two associations supporting Microsoft released a report poking holes in a white paper from an anti-Microsoft group that contends Microsoft is planning to use Windows XP and the .Net platform to extend its monopoly. Go to the full story by Peter Galli.