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Windows Phone 7 delivers more business-class features than expected at first glance, but enterprise IT shouldn’t expect to deploy the forthcoming OS, only support it. – The funniest thing I heard at TechEd 2010 was uttered by an earnest Microsoft employee who took other mobile operating systems to task for their... 

Reporter’s Notebook: Expected in July, the first beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 delivers needed enhancements for VDI customers, although implementation requires a significant hardware refresh in the data center and possibly also at the edge. – At TechEd, held June 7 to 10 in New... 

Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 contain an unpatched bug that could be used to infect PCs by duping users into visiting rigged Websites or opening attack email. The company said it has seen no active in-the-wild attacks exploiting the vulnerability.  Read More →

Microsoft issues a security advisory in response to the publication by a Google employee of attack code for a zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. – Microsoft issued a security advisory June 10 after a Google engineer published attack code targeting a Windows zero-day vulnerability on... 

Windows 7 and Mac OS X each have a new, fundamental flaw that will be presented at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam in July. These security holes are so close to the core operating systems that fixing them may be very hard. Windows 7 has an issue in the 64-bit edition of the operating system.  Read More →

Microsoft used the first day of its TechEd 2010 conference in New Orleans as the platform to announce that Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will arrive in July. Windows 7 SP1 will apparently contain updates already available through Windows Update, with a few additional fixes based on user feedback. Although... 

Google is migrating away from Windows internally, in part due to concerns about security that have surfaced because of the infamous Aurora attack, according to a report in the Financial Times. – Security concerns are reportedly hastening an internal move by Google to migrate away from Microsoft Windows. According to... 

Half of the enterprise computers running the aged Windows XP operating system are still relying on the soon-to-be-retired Service Pack 2 (SP2), a researcher said today. According to security risk and compliance management provider Qualys, 50 percent of the several hundred thousand PCs it monitors for its clients are still running...