Despite what some of the press releases say, it appears Office 365 isn’t really in the cloud. It looks like you need to have a Windows PC for full access. Then there’s the question of reliability.

While it’s not ready for the average user, developers and designers will find IE10 Platform Preview 2 worth looking at. This page includes a link for downloading the package.

While Chrome and Safari continue to increase their browser share, and Internet Explorer fades, Microsoft is boasting about IE9’s success on Windows 7.

Microsoft has decided the Hohm project wasn’t living up to its promise and killed it. The project had been started in 2009 to help people monitor their electricity consumption.

Spam used to be profitable but spam filters stopped that. Now cyber-criminals are targeting attacks very carefully and making lots of money from the unwary.

Before you get rid of that old computer, you want to delete data from the hard drives. BluestSoft offers both home and business versions of their DiskDeleter tool for Windows systems.

Mimecast offers a cloud-based email platform with security, continuity, and archiving services for Exchange 2010 to provide continuity services during migration.

TDL-4’s malicious code functions as a web-based robot. It can be instructed to perform a set of tasks, such as installing more malware or deleting competitor’s malware. This particular botnet appears to be hardened against take downs.

Trojan:Win32/Popureb.E puts itself in the Master Boot Record (MBR) of a PC, making it difficult to get rid of. Originally Microsoft had instructed users to re-install their machines. Now they’re saying the Recovery Console should be able to clean your PC adequately.

IT departments are not spending money this year. And no matter how Microsoft justifies the price of a migration, it will still cost money that companies may not be willing to spend.