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A number of Internet security providers, including McAfee, Trend Micro, and F-Secure are reporting that exploit code for the Internet Explorer 7 vulnerability, patched by Microsoft last week, is now circulating in the wild.

If you have not downloaded and applied this patch you should do so immediately. If you have Automatic Updates enabled on your computer, then this patch has already been applied. Careful users will verify that this patch, has in fact, been applied.

Microsoft isn't short of cash, and it recently - and unsuccessfully - offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion.

The idea was to catch up with Google, but the big G isn't the only firm doing well in areas where Microsoft isn't. So perhaps Microsoft should widen its net. From video and music to shopping and social networks, we think these six firms should be on Microsoft's shopping list.

Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential (UP) team has a new Corporate Vice President: Amit Mital, the former General Manager of the Live Mesh and Developer Platform unit.

Mital, a 15-year Microsoft veteran, is reporting to Anoop Gupta, whose title is “Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Unlimited Potential Group, Education Product Group, Technology Policy and Strategy.” Gupta took over last year as head of UP when Microsoft Windows veteran Will Poole retired from his last Microsoft post, where he worked on emerging-market initiatives.

Microsoft has lifted the curtain on Windows Mobile the new operating system for mobile phones.
The new operating system comes with a revamped user interface, and has an updated version of Internet Explorer for mobiles bundled in.

There’s many mysterious services and processes hogging Windows, and Cisvc.exe is one of them. A quick Google search on the topic reveals little more than a few sentences on what it is. So we’ve decided to explain it in detail, and let you know how to stop it from slowing down your computer once and for all.

icrosoft is crying foul over recent comments made by an Adobe executive that Silverlight has "fizzled" as a competitor to Adobe's Flash.

In his blog, Tim Sneath, director of the Windows and Silverlight technical evangelism team, accused Adobe Executive Vice President and CFO Mark Garrett of "living in a fantasy world" if he thinks that Silverlight adoption is waning.

Microsoft announced plans to open retail stores, hoping to boost visibility of many of its products and its brand. The move seems to be an effort to mimic the success that Apple has had with its retail stores. The news is just too tempting not to have some fun with. So here are some yet-to-be-officially-revealed details about the Microsoft stores.

Problems with the Conficker worm have become so widespread that Microsoft is putting up $250,000 for information leading to the arrest of the worm's author.

Additionally, Microsoft is collaborating with other industry organizations to form a group to stop the self-replicating worm, which is said to be one of the largest botnets ever created. Among the group's members are Symantec, domain registry organization ICANN, AOL and Verisign.

On the face of it, Microsoft’s latest monthly update seems quite light with ‘just’ two critical vulnerabilities. But one of them, for Exchange Server, is an absolute doozy.

The words "free" and "Microsoft" don't often appear in the same sentence, so imagine my surprise at discovering this deal: a free custom domain name, free Web hosting, free e-mail accounts, and more.

As you might expect from the name, Microsoft Office Live Basics has a decidedly business focus--but that doesn't mean you can't use it for a personal site.