Ten years ago U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered that Microsoft be split into two companies as part of an anti-trust deal. The order was overturned leaving Microsoft to do as they pleased. Now it’s looking like it would have been a good move for Microsoft to have been split up.

Microsoft is offering training vouchers to the first 500 Lotus Notes professionals who want to learn Exchange, SharePoint, and other Microsoft software.

Despite the hack, and the continued censorship, CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that Microsoft will stay in China.

After beta testers found performance issues, Microsoft has delayed the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4. The new release date has been set for Monday, April 12.

A new vulnerability in Internet Explorer was exploited in the hacks against Google and other companies. The vulnerability exists in several versions of IE. Microsoft has issued an advisory on how to mitigate your vulnerability.

Denise had uninstalled McAfee’s antivirus program and had moved on to one from another vendor. Everything seemed to work fine, except for when she launched Outlook 2007.

Read this OutlookPower article.

Buying Office, or Windows, can cost you hundreds of dollars. Now that Microsoft will let you "rent" the software, is it a better deal to buy or rent?

Conficker made news last year when it infected millions of PCs around the world. Then it didn’t do anything. There are still millions of PCs infected with the malware, waiting for an order to do something.

Multi-tasking and multi-core support has been offered under Windows since XP. But. It apparently takes new hardware under Windows 7 to see what it’s really capable of.

Hamrick Software has released VueScan version 8.6 – with improvements, new features, problem fixes, and additional scanners supported. VueScan now supports Mac OS X, Windows and Linux so you don’t have to buy a new scanner.