Many firms didn’t migrate to Vista leaving them with aging, unsupported desktops operating systems. Now Microsoft expects Windows 7 to account for half the operating systems bought by corporations next year.

It’s an odd way to leak pricing information – you can find the deal through Google, but then vendors say it’s out of stock. The Windows 7 Family Pack/Home Premium Upgrade may or may not exist.

Tripware provides a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook 2007 enabling travelers to handle things from Microsoft Outlook. The plug-in connects to a n on-line travel portfolio with flight, hotel, car, and scheduling preferences.

The Windows 7 "half price sale" is going well. But. The price will rise after July 11 and both Apple and Google will be releasing new operating systems soon.

The ActiveX vulnerability was reported to Microsoft in 2008 but, now that an exploit utilizing it is affecting users, Microsoft has recommended removing support for ActiveX from their browsers.

Reader Sam M. has some problems sending attachments. This problem can occur for a bunch of reasons. To learn what you can do to fix the problem if it happens on your machine, you’ll have to read the full article.

Read this OutlookPower article.

Standard Excel doesn’t support editing pivot tables but with the Pivot4U Add-in from Pivot4U Solutions editing it becomes possible.

Thousands of sites were apparently hacked over the weekend, enabling "drive by" infections of PCs running Internet Explorer 6 and 7 with ActiveX. If you’re running Firefox or Chrome, your machine is not vulnerable to this attack.

Microsoft’s Community Promise will be applied to the C# language and Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) freeing developers from intellectual property claims.

Microsoft’s Gazelle is something of a combination of web browser and operating system, though it still runs on top of Windows. Researcher Helen Wang will be presenting a paper on Gazelle at the Usenix security conference.