While most people want a camera on their phone, Microsoft has relaxed the hardware requirements for WinPhone7 to allow vendors to put it on devices without cameras.

Microsoft wants you to use Internet Explorer 9. They’re so eager to have you upgrade they’re offering "prizes", like a free month of Hulu Plus or $5 off a movie ticket from Fandango.

This article offers a review of Google Chrome 15, Mozilla Firefox 8, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, Opera 11.5, and Apple Safari 5.1.1. At this point IE9 is the oldest of the releases.

The Fujitsu IS12T has a 13.2-megapixel camera, is waterproof, and comes in amazing colors. It’s available in Japan, with a contract, for about $459, but probably isn’t going to make it to the U.S.

Atidan has released its SharePoint DocExplore for iPad which lets you browse and search Microsoft SharePoint document libraries using a collapsible tree view.

Last month Microsoft patched the True Type parsing engine. Now it seems the Duqu Trojan uses the same vulnerability. Microsoft is not planning an "out-of-band" patch for the problem.

Some employees may have already been let go as part of AMD’s restructuring. The company is laying off employees to help it cut costs and streamline operations.

Microsoft claims 99.9 percent uptime for its cloud. After several outages over the past year some are claiming that number is inaccurate and requesting an investigation.

November 8 is Patch Tuesday. There are only four bulletins, one of them rated "critical", this month. While Microsoft is working on a fix for Duqu, it doesn’t appear to be included in this list of fixes.

Perhaps they’re celebrating in Redmond. WinXP is, finally, starting to fade from favor. Businesses are beginning to update their systems to Win7 so they can run IE9.