On the theory that with enough data you can predict almost anything, Microsoft is working on programs to collect and process data to save energy. This article includes three short videos of Rich Rashid explaining research MSFT Labs is doing.

Win7 may be better than Vista, but it still has some annoying features. This book provides tips and tricks to keep the operating system running smoothly.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is backing i4i in the continuing patent dispute over XML features in Word 2007. Microsoft’s final recourse would be the U.S. Supreme Court.

Microsoft does not e-mail customers telling them to install an attached program. Malware writers frequently do. This malware message scam includes a keylogger.

Liquid XML Studio Service Pack 1 (SP1) offers a number of new features and enhancements plus general performance and stability improvements for Visual Studio 2010.

For those still using Win2000 and WinXP Service Pack 2, time is running out. July 13 is the last day support will be offered for these operating systems.

To help convince users to move to Win7, Microsoft offered a "limited time downgrade". If you didn’t like Win7, Microsoft would let you revert to WinXP. That off is going to end with the release of Service Pack 1 or April 2011, whichever comes first.

Perpetuum Software has a new version of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services that includes support for Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2.

When trying to select folders in Outlook Today, you won’t see the searches.

Read this OutlookPower article.

Patch Tuesday is next week and Microsoft is issuing two critical bulletins. Customers using SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0 have been told not to expect a patch for the cross-site scripting vulnerability.