The themes for Windows 7 have really brought a new level of personalization to Windows 7, and being the Irish citizen that I am, I had to be the one to bring you the news about a new “Shamrock Theme Pack” for Windows 7 in honor of St.Patrick’s day.

Microsoft recently demonstrated some technology that would allow gamers to play some of the same titles on their Xbox 360 game consoles, their Windows PCs, and handsets running the upcoming Windows 7 Phone series. Eric Rudder showed off the technology at TechEd Middle East a couple of days ago – the demonstration showed a simple platforming game that could be played on all of the above devices, seamlessly transferring progress made in the game between the three platformers via cloud computing. You can see the demonstration in the video below.

Microsoft is advising its customers to install the 32-bit version of Office 2010 over the 64-bit version due to poor add-in support. Read More: PC Pro Read the comments on this post

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Microsoft is planning to launch a $2 billion three-month TV ad campaign for Bing in the UK. Read More: Guardian Read the comments on this post

Apache for Windows has an exploitable flaw in its ISAPI module. Upgrade to 2.2.15 to avoid privileged arbitrary code execution. Read More: ZDNet Australia , Sense of Security Advisory Read the comments on this post

Microsoft has replaced the browser ballot randomization algorithm to fix the non-random shuffling. Read More: DSL.sk , Bing Translation , Google Translation Read the comments on this post

The Bing homepage helps people explore and learn about the world every day. Microsoft is giving students across the country the opportunity to win great prizes for themselves and their school, and..

Our ‘12 year young’ TWC forum member is back! This time with a tweaking utility called Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer. This tool will allow you to resize & tweak the Windows 7 taskbar… For more visit The Windows Club.

Microsoft’s mid-market server bundle, Essential Business Server, is being discontinued, with no further development after June 30. EBS shipped in November 2008, aimed at organizations with up to 250-300 desktops. The bundle includes a range of Microsoft server products, including Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Forefront Security, and ISA Server.