MunSoft has released Easy Excel Recovery, a data recovery tool letting home users and small offices recover lost, deleted and corrupted Excel spreadsheets.

It requires the latest version of Silverlight, but the updated Bing Maps has a new look and new features. It now includes a Taxi Fare Calculator to help you estimate the fare before you start out.

A new PC used to come with a manual and some disks. If anything went terribly wrong, you could start over. Nowadays, you’re lucky to get a packing list. And if your hard drive dies, the recovery partition holding the "system CD" isn’t going to do much for you.

If you have a Mac and you want to upgrade to Office 2011, the Home and Student version will not include an e-mail client. Also, while Office 2008 allowed you to install it on up to six machines, Office 2011 limits you to one machine.

A fix for the .LNK vulnerability is available on Microsoft’s Windows Update site. It was released early due to the large number of exploits using it.

Most companies use VMware products to install and run Microsoft operating systems which may be why Microsoft isn’t too upset about not being first in the virtualization field.

Measuring only 4.0 x 6.1 x 1.45 inches (102 x 155 x 37 mm) the LPC-100 offers Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processors, a variety of I/O connectors, and a built-in mobile hard drive.

Zephyr’s whitepaper on "Using Windows 7 as a Platform for Legacy Integration" is intended for application developers and contains example source code. It offers a "how-to" guide on establishing sessions, and more.

Microsoft’s engineers wanted to give users an easy way to avoid being tracked while online in Internet Explorer 8. But. The company needed to be able to provide information to advertisers, so the privacy settings weren’t implemented as a default.

The Mumba botnet had control of some 55,000 PCs and had captured some 60GB of stolen passwords and other data before researchers were able to shut it down.