August 5, 2010 11:50 AM PDT
by Elinor Mills

(Credit:
Microsoft)

Microsoft will issue 14 security bulletins on Tuesday to plug 34 holes, including eight that are critical, in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, SQL and Silverlight, the company said on Thursday.
“This will be the most bulletins we have ever released in a month; we [...]

August 2, 2010 9:08 AM PDT
by Lance Whitney

Efforts to build Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer 8 with more robust privacy settings were reportedly stifled by the needs of online advertisers to track user activity, according to a story in Monday’s Wall Street Journal.
In designing the browser in early 2008, IE8’s development team, led by [...]

July 21, 2010 8:59 AM PDT
by Lance Whitney

New beta of Microsoft's Security Essentials 2.0.
(Credit:
Microsoft)

Microsoft released a beta of the new version of its Security Essentials antimalware software on Tuesday, sporting a few changes and enhancements.
Following version 1.0 of the free Security Essentials released in September, the folks in Redmond outfitted the [...]