Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away. After handing out the pre-Christmas 2010 gift of Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 they’re doing the exactly opposite with Windows SteadyState which will not be available for download after 31 December this year. This puts Windows XP and Windows Vista users of this handy management tool for shared computers into a bind — but it doesn’t affect Windows 7 users because they can’t use it anyway!

Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 7 has been out for more than a year, but Australia's Federal Parliament revealed this week that it will ignore the release in the short term and is instead in the process of upgrading to its much-maligned predecessor, Windows Vista.

A new product from virtualisation specialist Parallels promises to take the pain out of upgrading to Windows 7.

I was drawn to a couple of interesting graphs that paint an interesting picture of Microsoft's frequent skirmishes with the Internet.  Whether or not they "get it" is still up for grabs.

Australia's PC market defied expectations and ended 2009 strongly, buoyed by an increase in consumer spending and lifecycle refreshes on government contracts to record a six percent sequential and a 10 percent  year-on-year growth for the fourth quarter last year.

Just three months after its general availability to the public, Microsoft’s latest Windows 7 operating system now accounts for 10% of all Internet browsing. Yet corporations are still unmoved.

The promised out-of-band patch for Internet Explorer has arrived, but Microsoft is now warning of an unpatched vulnerability in the Windows kernel.

Microsoft's promised 'out-of-band' security update for Internet Explorer is set for release early Friday morning, Australian time.

Better late than never, Apple has updated its Boot Camp utility to support Windows 7. But the update is more complex than we're used to.

Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday is a quiet affair, with just one bulletin. That's far fewer than the six each in November and December 2009.