Steve Ballmer recently said he was glad Microsoft hadn’t paid $44 billion for Yahoo back in 2008. But, now that Yahoo isn’t doing as well, and Google is taking an interest, will Microsoft come back to "rescue" their business partner?

The official announcements will take place Wednesday. In the meantime, this page offers some pictures and specifications of what is expected from the new phones.

So far, about 13,000 people have signed an on-line petition to convince Microsoft, and hardware manufacturers, to install "Secure Boot" in a way that allows users to install the operating system of their choice.

M-Files, Inc. has released version 8.0 of their M-Files document management system. The M-Files Cloud Vault can now be run on Windows Azure and there are a number of other new features.

Microsoft has promised Win8 will run faster than Win7 using the same hardware. Early impressions are favorable but, is it really faster? The author of this article put the new OS through some standard performance tests and posted the results.

Lodsys owns a patent covering in-app purchasing through an app store. They have already filed suits against developers writing apps for iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. Since Microsoft is using the same process for their Win8 app store, developers may find themselves targeted by Lodsys.

Even malware writers upgrade their software. Those behind the TDL4 rootkit have rewritten the code to make it even harder to remove from an infected machine.

Trinsic Technologies released EncryptSender, a low-cost email encryption gateway service to help your company meet compliance standards. EncryptSender is available in Lite and Enterprise plans to fit your needs.

This isn’t quite the ‘holodeck’ featured on Star Trek, this is a desktop-sized gadget that lets you interact with digital images. This page includes a 4-minute video showing how it works.

A lot of people have looked at the Metro interface and said "phone". Others look at the big squares on the screen and see Windows 1.0, a 25-year-old interface.