When it comes to social networking, it’s not what you know, or even who you know, it’s who knows you. And that’s pretty much where the trouble starts.

Read this OutlookPower article.

If your new netbook runs Windows 7 Starter Edition, you’ll be stuck with the default wallpaper, color, and sound schemes. Even the OEMs are prohibited from making changes.

June 23 has been named as launch date for Microsoft’s new Security Essentials, the replacement for Windows OneCare. Like OneCare, Security Essentials is supposed to protect machines against malware, for free once you sign the "Windows Genuine Advantage" agreement.

Microsoft has upped the ante – they’re offering $10,000 in a treasure hunt that can’t be run without Internet Explorer 8. Oh, yes, and you have to be an Australian resident.

Google released an Outlook plug-in that disables Microsoft’s Windows desktop search service. Perhaps this is to get even with a recent Microsoft plug-in that disabled Google search?

WinXP is looking like an OS that will never die. Microsoft has now extended availability to 2011 giving enterprise users an extra six to eight months to get ready for Windows 7.

Western Digital Corp. recently released three high performance drives.: the Caviar Black, the Scorpio Black and the VelociRaptor. This article gives specs, and prices, for these non-green drives.

The Kayxo Exchange Appliance Connector (KEAC) for Google Search Appliance (GSA) extends the power of the Google Search Appliance, enabling users to search for emails, contacts, appointments, tasks and documents stored in Microsoft Exchange.

Shortly before the release of Bing, Microsoft’s Live/MSN search engine saw an almost 15 percent drop in the number of searches run even thought the market grew.

According to one researcher, the Windows 7 User Account Control (UAC) feature can be turned off remotely without the knowledge of the user. Microsoft contends this could only happen if the machine was already infected and doesn’t think the feature needs to be changed.