The National Security Agency (NSA) was involved in making Win7 more secure. However. According to Microsoft, neither the NSA nor Microsoft installed a security "back door" in the operating system.

ASPHostCentral.com has rolled out ASP.NET 4 Hosting and Visual Studio 2010 hosted beta accounts based on the new Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bits platform allowing beta users to create and test websites in a scalable environment.

Pentalogic Technology’s new Reminder for SharePoint v1.7 allows customization of SharePoint alert and Reminder e-mails using rich text formatting.

It’s still early in the development process, but already people are predicting what Internet Explorer 9 will do. One thing being discussed is letting IE address computer hardware directly to speed up web-page rendering.

Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie spoke at the PDC 2009, giving greater detail on Azure as Microsoft positions it to be more than just a Windows platform in the cloud.

Office 2010 has entered public beta. This article discusses a number of the new features and enhancements you can expect to see in the final release.

SYWARE, Inc. announced an opportunity for developers to get a look at SYWARE’s Visual CE 12.0. New features will include a macro debugger, tabs, updatable grids, and synchronization to multiple desktop databases.

In a 2-hour presentation Mark Russinovich explained changes made to the kernel used by Win7 and Server 2008 R2. Among the changes are virtual DLLs, changes to memory mapping, and more. This article includes a quick recap of what was covered.

5nine Software has released 5nine Optimizer 1.0 for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere to help customers reduce the cost of multi-hypervisor virtual environments and increase hardware utilization employing advanced trend analysis.

Messageware announced release of its Messageware OWA Suite 2010 for Exchange 2010 to improve the OWA user experience and add security to protect corporate and client information.