Breakfast briefing: Obama kills moonshot 2.0, browser wars and Azure

• It's more than five years since George Bush announced his plan to go back to the Moon by 2020 - but now Barack Obama has killed the plan, saying Nasa money should be spent on other projects instead . Personally? I'm disappointed: Obama's plans, for now at least, don't really seem to include human space exploration of any sort, meaning an end to Constellation , the successor to the Space Shuttle programme. It may be pragmatic dream killed off. • The browser wars continue apace, according to new figures from NetMarketShare . Internet Explorer has dropped to 62% of the market, with Firefox down to 24% and Google's Chrome up to just over 5%. Internet Explorer 8 is now apparently the most popular version of IE, outstripping IE6 (finally). • And after plenty of talk and testing, Microsoft has finally opened its Azure cloud computing platform . ZDNet has some more . Used it?