Mary Jo writes the Microsoft-Watch.com column for Ziff Davis and this week she gives us the latest on Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, which she expects will ship late Q2 or early Q3. (It's in beta, release candidate 1).

And coming up this week, Mary Jo says the European Union should rule on their antitrust litigation against Microsoft over the bundling of the Windows Media Player. "Settlement talks have fallen by the wayside," she reports.