Bing went live, two days early. The jury is still out, but there do seem to be some interesting features.

Service Pack 2 for Vista offers the usual bug fixes and performance tweaks. But a number of people are reporting large increases in free disk space after updating their systems.

In an all too familiar scenario – Microsoft announced a bug in their software last week and hackers are already exploiting it. This time it’s DirectX.

We wanted to bring you up-to-date on some of David’s latest postings on the CNN Anderson Cooper 360 site. In the past two weeks, he’s published the following fun articles:

Protect yourself: Make sure check scams don’t scam you!

Four unconventional picks for Supreme Court nominee

What if someone stole the Library of Congress?

Attack of the zombie computers

You don’t want to bother with computer security because it’s expensive and you don’t have anything on your PC worth stealing? This article provides a quick run-down on what a hacked PC can be used for and has a nice chart that should be pinned to everyone’s wall as a reminder.

If names are important to people, Michael Scalisi of PC World, wants to know why Microsoft chose a name like "Bing".

Windows Vista spent a lot of power accessing the disk, leading to slow performance. Microsoft says they’ve rewritten the code so Windows 7 doesn’t drag you down. This article details test results for 64-bit Vista and 64-bit Win7 on several brands and types of hard drives.

Microsoft’s next challenge to Adobe System’s flash could arrive as early as July. Along with this update to Silverlight, Microsoft is expected to release version 3 of Expression Studio.

Groove collaboration software will be renamed and added as a part of Office 2010. Groove will then be the method for users to access files stores on SharePoint servers.

This article provides screen shots of the new search engine, scheduled to be released June 3, as the reviewer walks through how to use some of the features.