Ray Ozzie arrived at Microsoft with some great ideas. While Microsoft has implemented some of them, there are signs it hasn’t given up on the old, complex systems.

Lumension is sponsoring a free webinar on October 26 titled "Beyond Windows Patching: Dealing with the New Imperative to Patch Adobe, Apple, Linux and More". A recording of the event will be available afterwards.

Perhaps it’s name recognition. Reviews say Google Docs works better than Office 2010 Live, but businesses seem to be going with Microsoft anyway.

As of today, October 22, Microsoft is prohibiting PC makers from pre-installing WinXP on new machines. It looks like you may still be able to downgrade your machine to WinXP until 2015.

WinXP is still hanging on, despite Microsoft’s efforts to kill it off. And, while it’s understandable you didn’t want to move to Vista, there are some nice features in Win7 you might want.

New York City has flexed its muscles and forced Microsoft to unbundle software. Now, if a user needs Word but not PowerPoint, the city doesn’t have to pay for the "unneeded" software.

Microsoft has sold over 200 million licenses since it released Windows 7 a year ago. This article provides links to a number of other articles with news and tips.

It isn’t an app store, but Microsoft’s new service will help users find "Windows 7 compatible" hardware and software.

Microsoft is hoping Windows Phone 7 will be another Windows 7 and generation millions of sales. However. The OS is Microsoft-centric and may cause you annoyance.

Outlook has a strange new behavior for reminders.

Read this OutlookPower article.