A review on Microsoft's multi-kernel OS project.
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The developer of the market-leading browser has become more actively engaged in hashing out many details of a proposed revamp of the Web page standard.
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Microsoft aims to make a much different first impression with Windows 7 than it did with Vista, its oft-maligned predecessor.
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Responding to “The Palm Pre/iPhone Multitasking Myth,” which described the history of multitasking in operating systems, reader Marc Dufresne offered some additional insight into how Microsoft obtained the basis of Windows NT from DEC. Read more...

Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. Read more...

A future Microsoft operating system may be entirely Web-based. Here are the pros and cons of Midori and the "cloud computing" concept. Read more...

Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. The drivers will be available to the Linux community and customers alike, and will enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualized on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. Read more...

The Microsoft Private Cloud enables:

• Management of the datacenter fabric as a single pool of resources
• Delivery of scalable applications and workloads
• Focus on the management of the datacenter service and it’s dependencies
• Federation of services across the full cloud continuum

Microsoft is enabling customers to build the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure using Windows Server® and System Center family of products with the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises (availability scheduled in the first half of 2010).

The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises is a free, partner-extensible toolkit that will enable datacenters to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage resources to enable IT as a service. Read more...

Addressing an audience of prominent academic researchers today at the 10th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft External Research Corporate Vice President Tony Hey announced that Microsoft Corp. has developed new software tools with the potential to transform the way much scientific research is done. Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench allows scientists to easily work with large volumes of data, and the specialized new programs Dryad and DryadLINQ facilitate the use of high-performance computing. Read more...

Google isn’t the only company toying with the idea of a secure operating system based around a web browser. Back in February, researches at Microsoft revealed details about Gazelle. Gazelle claims to be “a multi-principal OS construction of a secure web browser. Gazelle’s Browser Kernel exclusively provides cross-principal protection and fair sharing of all system resources.” Read more...

Tomorrow's monthly Patch Tuesdayis garnering Microsoft a bit more attention than it's used to for its patch release schedule. One of the fixes, for a security vulnerability in an ActiveX controlaffecting Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, has been expected since early 2008. Read more...

Merge modules provide a standard method by which developers deliver shared Windows Installer components and setup logic to their applications. Merge modules are used to deliver shared code, files, resources, registry entries, and setup logic to applications as a single compound file. Developers authoring new merge modules or using existing merge modules should follow the standard outlined in this section.

A Good discussion article in Microsoft answers. Read here...

Microsoft Research has published a new article that explains in more layperson-like terms exactly what its “Gazelle” Web browser is and why the company’s researchers believe it’s needed. Read more...

A bevy of Windows blogs including Neowin.net, GeekSmack.net, and Wzor report that the final "gold" build ofWindows 7 will occur on July 10 and the OS will see a release-to-manufacturing on July 13. Read more...

While lots of fanfare has been given to Microsoft's latest search engine Bing, which is really just Windows Live Search Improved, the true test of how Microsoft technologies will fare against Google is a Silverlight versus Wave battle, say the development folks at Zoho. Read more...

A review on Microsoft free antivirus software. Read more...

Good web page to keep track of Windows 7 updates.

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Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch to fix an extremely critical worm hole that exposes Windows users to remote code execution attacks.

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Photos: Hands on with Microsoft's touch interfaces