Microsoft has debuted a new website, called Hohm, to help people find ways to cut their power use at home. Use of this beta program is available, for free, to anyone in the United States.

Microsoft Outlook has long had difficulty rendering HTML in emails and Outlook 2010 doesn’t look to promise anything better. Some people Tweeted their displeasure. Then it started to snowball.

If you’d like Microsoft to hear your complaint, you can tweet them from this site as you read what others have posted. Just make sure to include "fixoutlook.org" in your tweet.

CloudFolder is a free application for Windows for storing files and folders to a CAStor cluster that can be downloaded, installed, and ready to use quickly.

Windows Security Essentials was released in beta today, to the first 75,000 to download it. Replacing Windows Defender, this free product seems to be swimming in mis-information.

Apparently Microsoft is feeling unloved. To win back your business they’re willing to bribe you, with promises of prize money and charitable gifts.

Fujitsu, and other vendors, will begin offering PC buyers the chance to buy an upgrade voucher soon. The voucher will allow you to claim a copy of Windows 7 when it ships.

For years Microsoft has gotten bad press for the security of its applications. Now… Roger Grimes, of InfoWorld, offers his opinion on what might have changed.

Microsoft acknowledged the vulnerability a month ago but hasn’t issued a patch yet, leaving machines running Win2000, WinXP, and Server 2003 at risk.

This article includes a 40-minute video with blogger Mary-Jo Foley and Reg software editor Gavin Clarke discussing the confusing signals from Redmond.