The iPad, like the iPhone, doesn’t support multi-tasking. Windows 7 does. So. Citrix is planning to have a XenDesktop, or XenApp, ready for the iPad when it ships in March.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Win7 helped boost Microsoft’s earnings. It’s been a number of years since some people bought new software. Still, a 60 percent increase is impressive.

Now that Win7 is out, and successful, Microsoft is making plans to release Windows 8, as early as next July. This would bring the product cycle to about 18 months.

If your laptop came with WinXP or Vista and you upgrade it to Win7, prepare to recharge more frequently. Some users have reported a 75 percent drop in battery life after upgrading.

This article is the last in a series introducing you to some of the enhancements in Windows 7. Improvements in Internet Explorer, firewalls, and system restores are mentioned here.

Bill Gates likened Chinese internet controls to those of other countries, claiming such controls are easy to get around. Gates’ comments have left Steve Ballmer having to defend Microsoft against critics.

A series of vulnerabilities, necessary to the Windows operating system, in Windows and Internet Explorer can be used to expose all the files on a computer’s hard drive. Because these are not "bugs" in the system, Microsoft can’t easily close the hole.

SharePoint 2010 is expected to be available, only in a 64-bit version, later this year. This article looks at some of the new features and the differences between SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007.

In this book Joseph Albahari and Ben Albahari answer questions about how to use C# 4.0 or the .NET CLR. Organized around concepts and use cases, this fourth edition includes coverage of new C# topics such as parallel programming, code contracts, dynamic programming, security, and COM interoperability.

There is a pretty elegant solution, but it involves your email server, not your email client.

Read this OutlookPower article.