Microsoft is perfecting a new way to take down botnets. The company now has legal, permanent ownership of 276 web domains once used by the Waledac group. Microsoft was granted ownership after the domain owners failed to respond to a lawsuit.

Information on Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac is coming out in little pieces. There will be companion web apps, like in Office 2010 for Windows, and multiple users can collaborate on a document, as in Google Docs.

Clifford Nass is a sociologist who thinks we have begun to treat our machines, particularly computers, as if they are human. He’s found that even computer professionals are guilty of this quirk.

In this article, Joe shows how to go about finding what’s wrong with an Outlook rule.

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The vulnerability has been around for years, perhaps since 2002. Internet Explorer 8 has been said to be "most vulnerable" to the flaw which will be fixed in IE9. A patch for IE8 is expected as part of next week’s Patch Tuesday.

The software has a problem. The vendor will charge you to fix it, providing themselves a steady stream of income from service contracts.

HTML5 may be the next great internet technology, but Microsoft doesn’t plan to let Silverlight slip into obscurity just yet. Silverlight is being positioned to fill the gaps in HTML.

Ten years ago Woody Leonhard traded the mountains of Colorado for the beaches of Phuket, Thailand while continuing to do the same job for the same company. Such extreme telecommuting has both pluses and minuses.

This article looks at some of the more common functions you need to know in Windows. How to get back an accidentally deleted file, clean up the system try, and more.

Microsoft Office is fat with features many of us never use but pay for anyway. Mobile devices are starting to offer limited-feature Office-compatible editors that may change the way we look at Office.