Most structures, software or houses, are built to a plan. The variances from that plan make parts of the structure weaker, a handy place to start an attack from.

USB 3.0, also known as SuperSpeed USB, is the new USB standard with speeds up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0. While the technology is backward compatible, new USB 3.0 devices won’t fit in USB 2.0 slots.

The iRise 8 enterprise visualization platform includes drag-and-drop support; content modules that can be created, license-protected and distributed; and improved enterprise administration. The iBloc Plug-in API is expected to be available within 60 days, as part of the iRise 8.1 beta.

Is a ballot really a ballot when it’s hidden behind configuration screens for Internet Explorer 8? That’s the question Opera has posed to the EU.

While Win7 is being adopted at much faster rates than Vista, WinXP is still proving hard to dislodge.

Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last to support the Itanium architecture. Microsoft will continue support for Itanium-based systems until July 2013.

Usually, bug testing can turn up a few dozen to a couple hundred problems that need fixing, but Microsoft tried a new method for testing Office 2010. The tests uncovered far more issues, large and small, than traditional tests.

Though Microsoft lost the anti-trust suit ten years ago, it’s hard to tell if there was any lasting effect.

Back in 2008, Microsoft promised to follow industry standards on Open XML in future releases of Office. Instead, Office 2010 uses OOXML Transitional which was rejected, and deprecated, in 2007.

Conficker started infecting PCs over a year ago. Last year there was supposed to be an April 1 meltdown of the internet, triggered by Conficker. While nothing has happened, yet, there are more than 6 million machines hosting the worm.