Conficker may have turned into a "ho-hum" threat but, by some estimates, 20% of the PCs out there still haven’t been patched against it. MS08-067, the patch, has been available since October 2008.

Patch Tuesday offers five patches to fix ten critical flaws, including one in Excel, and eleven lesser vulnerabilities.

It takes time for most large companies to roll out a new operating system. Most larger companies won’t even start to deploy Windows 7 for at least a year.

Microsoft would very much like you to upgrade your version of Internet Explorer to 8. They’re sending notices to Automatic Update users about IE8 but will still allow users to block the upgrade.

Microsoft’s Live Labs is experiencing a brain drain. Some people will be moved to various product groups while others may be let go.

It sounds like an April Fool’s joke, hold computers around the world hostage, terrorize people into thinking the worst, then try to sell them a fake anti-virus package. In the meantime, all the infected machines are now part of a botnet army to send out yet more spam.

Xenocode announced availability of the online Xenocode Silverlight Sandbox allowing developers to distribute Silverlight-based applications without the need for installation of the Silverlight runtime or administrative privileges.

There’s a lot of Apple Bashing going on, much of which has to do with price. But by the end of the day you’ve spent a lot of hours with the operating system, which has little to do with the price of the hardware.

Not that $388 million is a drop in the bucket but… Microsoft has been ordered to pay Uniloc in a patent infringement case involving a software installation program.

Perhaps the "1", in April 1, was actually followed by another number. Conficker is updating itself with help from the Waledac botnet. Researchers don’t yet know what it has downloaded.