Microsoft Steals This Day

Microsoft to plug holes in Windows, IE, Word, Office and Excel

Microsoft will release 10 security updates on Patch Tuesday next week, including critical patches for holes in Windows, IE, Word, Office and Excel. The six critical vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a machine, according to the Microsoft security bulletin issued on Thursday.

Microsoft Outlook users targeted in phishing attempt

The phishing e-mail arrives in Outlook e-mail in-boxes and looks like it comes from Microsoft. It prompts recipients to reconfigure their Outlook by clicking on a link that leads to a Web site that asks for an account name and password, as well as mail server information,

Windows 7 Starter Edition limits netbook designs

Don't be fooled: Windows 7 Home Premium works very well on most netbooks — the machines don't need Starter Edition. Despite what you may have read, Microsoft didn't devise Starter Edition to run on smaller, less-well-endowed computers. Rather, the company needed something cheaper than Home Premium to sell to the ultra-low-cost crowd. Keep that fact in mind while you sift through the marketing hype.

Microsoft Bing - Full Review by PC Magazine

With Bing, Microsoft's goal is not only to finding Web pages for you, but also to help you make decisions, and to deliver useful information on the results page itself. And in many ways, it succeeds.

State of the Art - Palm Gets It Right With Pre, Its New Smartphone

The star of this summer blockbuster is Palm. Over the years, this once-great company lost its talent for everything but making business blunders. Pundits were predicting Palm’s passing — but then the new Palm Pre appeared. The Pre, which goes on sale Saturday, is an elegant, joyous, multitouch smartphone; it’s the iPhone remixed.