Microsoft’s past success with tablets has been less than impressive but, now that the iPad is so popular, Steve Ballmer has decided there is a need to crush that popularity.

Now that Steve Ballmer has stressed the need for Microsoft to develop a tablet to challenge the iPad, Windows 7 is being customized for the job.

Microsoft made its fortune on Windows and Office. But the desktop isn’t the only computing platform and Microsoft seems to be falling behind in innovation.

There are now so many exploits targeting the .LNK vulnerability that Microsoft is issuing an out-of-band patch on Monday, August 2.

Full Sail University has announced the first Girls n’ Gaming summer camp being held in the newly constructed Full Sail Studios. During the annual Girls n’ Gaming camp, August 2 – 6, participants learn from industry professionals and explore the process of game development from concept to completion.

If you’re looking forward to Internet Explorer 9, September has been picked for release of the first beta.

Office for Mac 2011 is expected to be released at the end of this year. One of the expected features will be the ability to access documents through Office Web Apps.

The idea was, if Microsoft’s engineers found a software bug in something like a library, they’d report it to companies building consumer software so they could fix their code. However, it hasn’t worked quite as planned.

Email management expert Marsha Egan shares two words, when used sincerely, that will motivate like nothing else.

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