Patch Tuesday released two important patches this month. Plugging a total of eight voles in windows and office. Microsoft also warns of another zero-day attack in Internet Explorer.
One vulnerability in Movie maker affects Movie Maker in Vista and XP. A hacker could send a dirty movie maker or producer file to a victim via e-mail. [...]

There have been complaints that the browser choice ballot is not generating the “random” choice that it should do. Rob Weir of IBM has complained that the ballot is favouring some browsers over others. The ballot has come about after the European Commission’s investigation of anti trust complaints against the company. Opera felt it to [...]

Development for Essential Business Server, MS’s mid-market server software bundle, has been haulted. Microsoft is placing all bets on cloud computing for the m0re economicaly concious IT markets. EBS bundled Server 2008, Exchancge 2007, and server management tools together in one package. It will be discontinued as of the 30/06/2010.
Microsoft has said that the decision [...]

Microsoft have admitted that IE8 is still incompatible with over 2,000 frequently visity sites. This number has dropped by around 1,000 compared with last years figures. Back then more than 3,000 sites need to be run in compatability view.
In 2009, when IE8 was launched, it didn’t work too well with sites such as Apple, Royal [...]

Microsoft has started it’s advertising campaing for IE8 in the UK by airing TV adverts. It’s all gearing up for the browser choice ballot.
Copies of Windows in Europe are now recieving an update for  the browser choice screen. The Ballot is an automatic update for XP, Vista and 7.  Users with IE as their default browser, [...]

Windows Phone 7 is on the horizon, nearly. Only 8 months untill it makes it way into the hand of consumers.
Microsoft really had to pull it’s socks up at the Mobile Worlds Congress this year. And they certainly did, the new mobile platform has a very intuative interface and intergrated application set.
The home screen for [...]

Microsoft has won the XP downgrade law suit. After a yearlong battle it has been dismissed by a federal judge. The order has now been issued to put an end to the lawsuit, which had been filed last February. The complaint, lodged by  Emma Alvarado, Accused Microsoft of forcing people to upgrade when they don’t want to. [...]

The much unloved Vista will no longer be supported by Microsoft. This has been set a few months ahead of XP SP2 and Windows 2000 scheduled support deadline.
The Vista service pack free OS will no longer be support by MS as of the 13th of april 2010. which meens a hackers delight for those that [...]

Micrososft has alerted users to a fake antivirus product. The software named “Security essentials 2010″ is nearly identical to MS’s own protection software.
The true identity of the fake software is Win32/Fakeinit, a trojan. If the software is installedf to a machine its scanner component monitors and attempts to end other processes. Somtimes even flagging processes [...]

With the growing trend for desktop and application virtualization, the alternative seems all too often to get over looked. Thin-clients, all be it and “old” solution, is still a good way to deliver software to resource-constrained machines.
MS has repackaged their Windows Terminal Services. Aimed at students, it offers a thin-client platform on Server 2008 R2. [...]