Microsoft has announced two new projects to help you get data out of Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) files. The projects are available under an Apache license from the CodePlex site.

Windows 3.0, the great-grand-daddy of Windows 7, turns 20. It was Redmond’s first effort at a GUI environment and ran a whopping 16 colors.

The Alureon rootkit has been installed on an unknown number of WinXP machines, preventing the machines from getting security updates. But Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) has had some success in cleaning infected machines.

Microsoft announced a new version of the Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) suite recently. While some businesses were hoping the CCR and DSS toolkit would be offered separately, Microsoft has decided to keep them as part of the robotics tools.

Firefox, Chrome, Opera. These are three reasons why IE’s market share has shrunk. Other reasons might include security issues, awkward interfaces, and crashes.

While there is not a version of MS Word for the iPad, yet, you can still edit Word documents on the device. You just have to be willing to do a little work.

As the volume and velocity of email traffic grows exponentially, more and more people struggle with how to manage all those incoming messages.

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AutoPlay Media Studio 8 is a software development tool giving developers the ability to create multimedia software applications using a drag-and-drop development environment.

Click fraud scams have increased enough to prompt Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit to start tracking down the perpetrators.

Microsoft Europe’s Peter Devery is raising money for the Spinal Injuries Association and the British Paralympics. And Microsoft is matching donations.