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In this first look at the new features in Internet Explorer 9, I highlight its ability to pin web sites to the Windows 7 taskbar, just as you can with native Windows applications. View the full article

The latest entry in the Halo series is the best yet, with an epic storyline, amazing graphics and presentation, stellar gameplay, and all of the expected multiplayer niceties. This is Halo done right. View the full article

Lots of changes to my daily-use technology this month, including two smart phones--a prototype Windows Phone and a DROID X--three new iPods, two new Kindle 3s, a new digital camera (a GPS-equipped Panasonic), IE 9 Beta as the new default web browser, the reemergence of the Zune PC software, VLC Media Player, two Optiplex servers based on "Vail" and "Aurora," and over 12 TB of server storage. View the full article

If IE 9 is designed to blur the lines between Web sites and Web apps, does that imply that Microsoft is counting on content developers to do with IE what the company did with Windows — namely, to build apps that work better in Microsoft’s environment than anywhere else? View the full article

The August comScore numbers are out, with that firm claiming that Microsoft and Yahoo now have a collective 28.5 percent of U.S. search share, compared to Google with 65.4 percent. View the full article

Verizon and Sprint won’t be offering Windows Phone 7 CDMA models until 2011. That’s not welcome news. What’s worse, however, if News.com’s paraphrase is on the money, is that Microsoft already is working on a “major rewrite” of the Windows Phone operating system. View the full article

The camera should be seen as a simple usb storage device. There should be no drivers needed to get the pictures off it. Once plugged in Windows should see it as a mass storage device and allow you to browse to it. I can find no drivers available for this cam so I think maybe you have another problem.

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If Microsoft and its phone partners really do end up delivering the first Windows Phone 7 devices in October in Europe and November in the U.S., Microsoft is sure cutting it close in getting the final version of the development tools for those devices in the hands of coders. View the full article

On September 15, Microsoft made the first public beta of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 available for download. Microsoft has fielded four developer test builds of IE 9 since March. From my sources, I hear there are likely a couple more betas of IE 9 in the pipeline before the final version launches, possibly in April 2011 [...] View the full article

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 public beta is full of happy surprises: It's wicked fast, with incredible integration features, stellar web standards support, and a clean, simple, and beautiful new user interface. View the full article

Microsoft user interface researcher Bill Buxton told the Globe and Mail that he expects Microsoft to be offering three years from now a tablet device that will be like a slimmed-down mini Surface. That sounds all well and good… except for the three years part. And the Windows part …. View the full article

Microsoft may be limiting (severely) attendance at its upcoming Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Redmond, but it is adding 65 regional “mini” PDC events in the U.S. and other countries worldwide to compensate. View the full article

Current cloud computing and mobile trends aren't just the next logical step in an ongoing evolution, they're sweeping revolutions that will forever transform the way we access and consume computing resources. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. This security update is rated Important for all supported editions of Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. All supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not affected by the vulnerability. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS). The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an authenticated attacker sent specially crafted Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) messages to a listening LSASS server. In order to successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must have a member account within the target Windows domain. However, the attacker does not need to have a workstation joined to the Windows domain. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. This security update is rated Important for all supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. All supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not affected by the vulnerability. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. This security update is rated Important for all supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. All supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not affected by the vulnerability. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Information Services (IIS). The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a client sends a specially crafted HTTP request to the server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opened or previewed a specially crafted e-mail message using an affected version of Microsoft Outlook that is connected to an Exchange server with Online Mode. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Unicode Scripts Processor. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted document or Web page with an application that supports embedded OpenType fonts. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in MPEG-4 codec. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted media file or receives specially crafted streaming content from a Web site or any application that delivers Web content. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Print Spooler service. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a specially crafted print request to a vulnerable system that has a print spooler interface exposed over RPC. By default, printers are not shared on any currently supported Windows operating system. View the full article

Apple's new iPod shuffle 5G and iPod nano 5G don't move the dial as much as the new iPod touch, but they're both competent digital audio players. View the full article

Microsoft is working on a new physical-to-virtual (P2V) tool for helping customers move legacy applications to Windows 7 using virtualization technology. View the full article