If you run Office 2007, or earlier, Microsoft has issued a tool to help plug a vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player. The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) can be downloaded for free.

Internet Explorer 9 is different. While it integrates well with Windows, it isn’t as tightly tied to the OS as previous versions. And, it fixes some of the problems that have been around for years.

Microsoft seem to have decided that it’s up to you to track the ‘do-not-track’ lists. If you have selected to use multiple lists, and a site appears on only one of those lists, it will be allowed to track your web browsing.

The take-down of the Rustock botnet was apparently the result of raids conducted by Microsoft Corp. and federal law enforcement agents. The raids were part of a civil suit filed against the unnamed operators of the botnet.

Over the years Microsoft has offered several tablet devices running Windows. All of them have failed. Now Apple has a wildly successful tablet but, according to Forrester Research, people really want a Windows table instead.

For those comfortable on WinXP, is the move to Win7 worth the hassles? There’s the new user interface, the change in admin capabilities, different hardware requirements, and… But WinXP is beyond ancient in computer years.

RIM has announced plans to implement a free, cloud-based hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Service, running the BES Express software, for Microsoft Office 365 users.

Internet Explorer 9 comes with the H.264 video codec. But. Google is offering the WebM codec for IE9. Once you install it, WebM will render video in multiple Windows applications.

Andrew Tait revisits older versions of Internet Explorer in this 9-minute video. If you missed the early versions of IE, you can now see what they looked like, how they installed, and how they work with the Acid Tests.

Microsoft Corp. has announced the availability of Microsoft Accessibility Tools & Training, a package of free online accessibility training courses, tools and other resources to help developers create technology products, services and websites accessible to people with disabilities.