Weekly IT news round-up 16 Oct 07

ComputerWeekly.com's third weekly IT news round-up where we talk to the journalists who have written the stories behind the headlines.

In this week's round-up we discuss the government's announcement that it is to overhaul IT at HM Revenue & Customs, how Skype is being used by criminals, and why Microsoft's announcement of a new service pack for Windows XP is important, and we count down the five most popular stories on ComputerWeekly.com in the past week.