Office 2010 is scheduled to be released May 12. With this release Microsoft will have finished moving its applications to the cloud.

It was over a year ago when Conficker started infecting PCs. The patch to prevent infection has been available since October 2008 but as many as 10 percent of PCs have not yet been patched.

Microsoft has begun detailing what you can expect from the first service pack for Exchange 2010. The service pack will contain a number of new features and enhancements. A beta of SP1 will be available in June.

No release dates have been announced but an early build of SP1 has been leaked to some download sites. The service pack is expected to include some features that didn’t make it into the initial release of Win7.

We can’t do two things well at once, especially talking on the phone and managing email.

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The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has released security configuration standards for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. The benchmarks are available as free downloads from www.cisecurity.org.

InstallFree Bridge 2.0 helps customers migrate to Windows 7 and improve desktop management while reducing cost and complexity.

Intertech has combined several separate blogs to create a single location where software development professionals can find information on Azure, Cloud Computing, Java, .NET, XML, Ajax, and SQL Server.

Microsoft hosts a lot of personal information within its applications, such as Hotmail. While Google crawlers search your messages for keywords to provide targeted advertising, Microsoft is pledging not to do so.

The upcoming version of Office Communications Server from Microsoft is expected to include several new voice features. This article discusses five of the features expected in OCS14.