PHP is a scripting language for Web development that can be embedded in HTML. Microsoft has added support for PHP to Windows Azure. Ted Dziuba offers his thoughts on the dangers involved.

Security updates, and other support, for Office 2000 will be discontinued July 14. Microsoft is also killing the Office Update website, effective August 1.

Undoubtedly it will cost more than MS-DOS. It may even cost more than Vista. But Microsoft won’t announce prices until next month.

First reports from Ball State University said the Internet Information Server vulnerability was the cause. Now that they’ve had time to catch their breath, they say it was misuse of a user account.

This week, we’d like to spotlight a neat tool we’ve been sniffing around for quite some time. It’s called Visnetic MailFlow and is published by Deerfield.com. We’ve know the Deerfield people for years now, use their Visnetic MailServer within our internal mail processing environment, and know they make good-quality stuff.

Read this OutlookPower article.

Last year Microsoft stated it did not support SQL Server in a virtual cluster. Now they’ve changed their minds and will support virtual clusters for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.

Kumo is expected to debut next week. But Yahoo and Google are upgrading their search engines with the same enhancements and may beat Microsoft to the punch.

Microsoft is releasing Kumo Search. Yahoo has started a "smart ad" system. Now that each company is feeling more comfortable in their prospects, talks on collaborating have restarted.

Microsoft released the required patch back in October 2008. So why is Conficker still finding almost 50,000 new PCs to infect every day?

Kumo, expected to be Microsoft’s replacement for Live Search, may make its debut next week. As yet, no announcement has been made as to its final name or what it will look like.