In an effort to compete on tablets, long a Microsoft soft spot, they’re loading a touchscreen interface into Win8.

Atomic Training is now offering Microsoft Office Suite 2010-2011 Training with tutorials on Excel 2010, Word 2010, and SharePoint 2010. Atomic Training offers short videos targeting specific problems to help you do your work.

Win8 is being described as a "balancing act", somewhere between application and operating system. The end result buries the "operating system" behind a phone-like user interface.

An "almost final" Release Candidate version of Silverlight 5 has been released to developers. Eight new features are included in this version. The final version is due for release later this year.

A user claims that as soon as you turn on a Windows Phone 7 device’s camera, Microsoft captures your location data, whether you’ve agreed to it or not. The location data is used by the camera’s geotagging feature.

Hyper-V was positioned to be a less expensive alternative to VMware. Now Microsoft is saying similar clouds under the two systems have vastly different costs with Hyper-V coming in at about one-quarter of the price of VMware.

Those using SQL Server 2008 R2 will be able to use an open-source Java connector, called SQOOPs, to add Hadoop capability to their installation.

Building 99 and Studio B house part of Microsoft’s research and development group. Here is where the "mad scientists" dream up the next hardware / software wonder, like making holodecks real.

Secunia’s Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) 5.0 can now be used to package patches for third-party software and publish those updates to Microsoft’s Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

Instead of copying an ISO image to a disc so you can mount it in a drive, Win8 will read the ISO image directly. The new OS will also be able to read Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) files.