If someone you don’t know calls you to say Microsoft has found a virus on your PC, please hang up. It’s a scam. Microsoft doesn’t have anyone call you with such information.

Tavis Ormandy, a Google security engineer, told Microsoft about a flaw in Windows. Mircosoft said the flaw was too minor to worry about, so Ormandy made the flaw public in hopes of getting Microsoft to issue a fix. Now. The flaw is being exploited, Microsoft blames Ormandy, and Ormandy’s colleagues are angry.

If you’re going to upgrade the operating system on your computer, this article offers seven tasks you should complete before you start the installation.

Microsoft’s .NET platform was introduced ten years ago. While parts of the platform have been successful, other parts have failed to make a splash. This article disusses some of what was good, and what failed, from the original offering.

eMazzanti Technologies is working with Microsoft to launch a new pilot social media campaign for small and medium business customers. eMazzanti Technologies is featured giving advice about saving time and money with new technologies.

If you run WinXP, there is a flaw in the Windows Help and Support Center software included in the operating system. This article has links to Microsoft’s explanation of the problem and a tool to disable the Help Center protocol.

Instaload means never having to check for the plus and minus signs on your batteries. The technology is compatible with a number of different size batteries.

Microsoft built DEP (Data Execution Prevention) and ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) security into their operating systems, beginning with WinXP SP2. However. A number of popular, third-party applications don’t support either DEP or ASLR.

Internet Explorer 8 has been gaining back some of the market share lost to Firefox and Chrome over the last year.

A flaw in WinXP’s built-in Help and Support system is being exploited by hackers to download a variety of malware to affected machines. Microsoft is working on a fix for the problem.