Let’s look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories: Microsoft shows off Windows Phone 7 Series dev tools at MIX10 : Microsoft’s MIX10 Developer Conference kicked off with much ado about Windows Phone 7 Series and Silverlight 4. Ars reports from Las Vegas.

We are pleased to release Windows Themes Installer. Windows Themes Installer is a freeware portable utility which allows you to install a theme, remove a theme and restore defaults easily in Windows…

Just as Microsoft had disabled Games by default in the Business and Enterprise editions of Windows Vista, bowing down to pressure from Employers and the Corporates, games have been disabled in… For more visit The Windows Club.

News of Windows 8 is scarce and uncertain, but most of what we know about it points to a release in 2012, some three years after the release of Windows 7. While this three-year release cycle worked well with Windows 7, making it the norm might not be the best plan for Microsoft, its business and home users, and its software developers. A Solution to the Vista Problem Windows 7 was developed and released in just three years, and the operating system was basically done when the public beta hit almost a year before.

On renaming a file, folder or shortcut on the Windows 7 desktop, if you find that it disappears, and reappears only after you refresh the desktop, then you might want to check out the reason.   This…