The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an international agreement. It was negotiated in secret, includes a wide variety of subjects, may not address what it was supposed to, but may cause a lot of collateral damage. It might represent law-making at its worst.

Microsoft is moving all four of their Dynamics ERP products to the Windows Azure cloud. The first to be offered on Azure will be Dynamics NAV 7.

There are signs that Microsoft will announce the consumer beta of Win8 on Februrary 29 during the Mobile World Congress trade show. This is not a "public beta", it will only be available to selected testers.

Consistency plays a large role in communication. With Microsoft the communication extends to the look and feel of the user interface for third party applications as well as manuals.

WinDeveloper Software has released WinDeveloper Message Recall v2.0 letting you recall messages when using the MS Exchange Outlook Web Access interface.

If you’d like to buy your Valentine a present, on February 14 Microsoft will sell the Lumia 800, plus a Nokia Play 360 wireless speaker, headset, and Bluetooth earpiece as a set for $899.

Your anti-malware software can only do so much. If something gets past it, you will still need to rebuild your system. There are a few new options to help you get your system back up and working.

Microsoft has gotten in a rut with the Windows interface and underlying code. Win8 is Microsoft’s attempt to break the mold and start fresh. Users may, or may not, revolt.

expressor software announced support for the QlikView Business Discovery platform. expressor for QlikView provides a metadata-driven integration platform for QlikView customers with native support for Microsoft Excel.

For developers working with C++, Microsoft has opened the AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) specification so non-Microsoft compilers can access GPUs (graphics processing units)