It seems the cloud has all of IT’s attention. IT departments are spending money to virtualize their equipment instead of buying new PC.

Steve Ballmer has been under attack by those who think he should be replaced. How did he react? He got up and announced a lot of information the company didn’t want publicized. This 40-minute podcast includes an interview with Mary-Jo Foley.

Gag-gift company Cellrderm is suing Microsoft over those ads where people get so wrapped up in their phones as to forget everything else. It seems that Cellrderm did its own commercials first.

Data centers use diesel generators as backup power sources. But the generators need to be tested regularly, leading to a fair amount of air pollution from diesel fumes.

Microsoft offers four basic e-mail clients to help you access your mail. In case you have trouble deciding which to use, this article has a quick explanation of each.

Patch Tuesday included a fix for a critical issue with the Windows Bluetooth Stack in Win7 and Vista.

M-Files announced support for Microsoft Dynamics GP with M-Files Cloud Vault. Cloud Vault simplifies document management in Dynamics GP running on the Windows Azure cloud platform.

Apple says a tablet isn’t the same as a PC. Microsoft continues to say tablets are simply scaled down PCs and need to be able to do everything a PC should. This is the same stance that has killed previous Windows tablets.

If you run Vista with Service Pack 1, Microsoft would like you to upgrade to Win7 instead of Vista with Service Pack 2.

Microsoft exec Tami Reller, speaking at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, announced Win8 will run on any hardware capable of running Win7. She also said a number of current applications will be able to run on the new OS.