Internet Explorer 9 has been clocked at significantly higher speeds than other browsers, but only on some websites. It seems that IE8 performs better than IE9 on many popular websites.

This article offers four methods of getting Internet Explorer 6 applications to work on Win7 and another browser. The choices aren’t easy and some will be more palatable than others.

After saying that the future of the internet is HTML5, Microsoft is now trying to convince developers there is still a future for Silverlight. Silverlight, Adobe Flash, and HTML5 are not quite the same, but perhaps not different enough to keep all three.

T-Drive, designed by Microsoft Research Asia, used GPS data gathered from thousands of cabs in Beijing and satellite maps to get a better, more useful, picture of the streets around the Chinese capitol.

Amnesty International’s Hong Kong website has been infected with a number of exploits, including one that attacks Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7.

Microsoft has apparently expanded on the idea of Kinect’s full-body control, to patent a foot-based interface for computing.

NEO Pro 5.0, an email organizer for Outlook designed to help you organize that flood of mail you get every day. Version 5.0 provides a number of enhancements including the ability to add notes to messages, export contacts, and a conversation view.

InstallAware Marketing Corporation has released InstallAware 10, a setup authoring tool for deploying products, patches, and web updates that works in Safe Mode. InstallAware 10 creates Native Code and Windows Installer setup packages with support for Windows 7, Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, and 64 bit operating systems.

In Quickbooks 2011: The Missing Manual author Bonnie Biafore puts you in control. You’ll not only find out how and when to use specific features, you’ll also get basic accounting advice to help you through the learning process.

Patch Tuesday arrived, but not for all versions of Office. It seems Microsoft forgot to patch the same vulnerabilities in the Mac versions of Office.