SPEAKING OF UPDATES

Your computer should restart tonight after installing this month’s critical updates for Windows and Office. It’s a particularly large batch of updates and some of them are for the kind of vulnerabilities that the bad guys will quickly be attempting to exploit. Adobe...

PHONE EXPLOSION

This week it’s all phones, all the time. On Tuesday, Microsoft formally presented Windows Mobile 6.5 to the world. It’s a lightly modified version of the Windows Mobile software that’s been usable but uninteresting for years. It’s still fairly uninteresting. Oh, the...

MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS NOW AVAILABLE

Microsoft Security Essentials, free antivirus and anti-malware security software from Microsoft, is now available from the MSE web site. Click here for the Microsoft press release, or click here for more information about Microsoft Security Essentials.If you want to...

FIRST LOOK AT OFFICE WEB APPLICATIONS

Microsoft introduced a limited public look at Office Web Applications this week – a “Tech Preview” for a small group of testers of versions of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint designed to run in a web browser and open files stored online.The bad news is that the preview is...