Touch screens work great for small items, like phones, and larger items, like kiosks. In between is a large class of devices that might or might not work well with touch, but now, with Windows 7, you may have the option of trying it out yourself.

A bug in DirectX, used by older versions of Windows, is being exploited to remotely execute code on machines. DirectX allows videos on web sites to play automatically.

Reader Jim Bush adds to the overall confusion about over-sized PST files with his questions about converting an Outlook 2002 file to Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 format.

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Microsoft may own the desktop but Google still owns the internet search. Microsoft’s current Live.com only has about 10% of the on-line searches market, something they hope to change with a media blitz for their new search engine.

Now available from Microsoft’s Download center, Service Pack 2 for Vista and Windows Server 2008 comes in 32-bit, 64-bit, IA64, and an ISO, all of which will work on multiple language versions.

Ian Paul of PC World has some basic questions he’d like to ask Steve Ballmer about Kumo, or Bing, starting with "will it work as advertised".

This is a short article providing links to white papers on risks and migration strategies and vendors in [email] archiving for Exchange 2007.

"Kumo" is to be renamed "Bing" and Microsoft is planning a big name-recognition advertising blitz. It won’t be known for a while if the new Bing is actually the old Bob in disguise.

A Malaysian site leaked information about specifications for PCs allowed to run Microsoft’s Windows 7 Starter for Small Notebook PC software. Limits are being imposed on screen size, memory, hard disk, and processor speed.

Microsoft has taken a lot of heat for the perceived issues with Vista security. While it isn’t perfect, the author of this article argues that Vista is good enough for most business situations.