Steve Jobs ran an innovative business, producing popular products. Bill Gates ran another business in the same field, with similar success. Then, while Steve Jobs stayed with his business, Bill Gates stepped aside and started using his money to cure malaria and fight other diseases.

HiSoftware Inc. announced the launch of their content-aware compliance and security solution for Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

Duqu is malware that uses a Word document as an installer. When the document is opened the code exploits a flaw in the Windows kernel to install itself. Microsoft is working on a fix.

The operating system hasn’t been finalized yet but already companies are starting to plan their migrations.

When Microsoft tied Internet Explorer to the operating system usage soared, reaching 95 percent of desktops in 2004. But it’s fallen steadily since and IE9 has done little to reverse the trend.

Sometime early next year Microsoft will release a commercial version of the software developer kit for Kinect. The current beta version is for amateur and academic users only.

The Courier tablet offered two screens and a stylus for input. But. It ran a modified version of Windows and didn’t offer all the "benefits" of the regular operating system. So it was killed off. Now the company is waiting for Win8 to re-enter the tablet wars.

Many companies buy and install security software and hardware. Most consider they’re doing a "good" to "great" job of securing their data. But analysts disagree.

Microsoft has started to roll out updates related to Office 365. Exchange Online is getting a new Office Web Apps feature that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote as part of the update.

While HP is only doing "proof-of-concept" testing, they do have some TouchPads running Win8 instead of webOS. This may mean a resurrection of the TouchPad but not webOS.