Microsoft’s new version of Internet Explorer has barred browser plugins in the Metro environment.

The Kinect for Windows and Kinect SDK have launched officially. The hardware costs $249, and the development license includes commercial usage. Read More: Kinect SDK , Previous coverage Read the comments on this post

It may be 2012, but apparently someone hasn’t got the message. Internet Explorer’s share of the desktop browser market grew in January, and most of that growth was due to Internet Explorer 6.

A botnet capable of delivering almost four billion spam messages per day has been confirmed resurrected—more than four months after Microsoft celebrated its untimely demise.

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Microsoft’s push to getting more companies onto the Cloud met with another success. Techstars Cloud , and Microsoft announced an agreement whereby new entrepreneurial companies would be participating in Cloud operations. According to TechStars they “will select approximately ten companies focused on cloud infrastructure to participate

Major e-mail providers, including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! are teaming up with PayPal, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more, to implement a new system for authenticating e-mail senders to try to prevent the sending of fradulent spam and phishing messages. The protocol that powers e-mail, SMTP, dates back to a more trusting era; a time when the only people who sent you e-mails were people you wanted to send you e-mails. SMTP servers are willing to accept pretty much any e-mail destined for a mailbox they know about (which is, admittedly, an improvement on how things used to be, when they’d accept e-mails even for mailboxes they didn’t know about ), a fact which spammers and phishers exploit daily.

Microsoft has announced that the Technical Preview Program for the software suite codenamed “Office 15″ has started.

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Kinect’s vision and depth perception technology could soon be integrated into laptops. The Daily has seen two prototypes, believed to be from Asus, that incorporate an array of sensors above the top of the screen, replacing the traditional webcam. Below the display are a set of LEDs.

The Kelihos botnet  that sent up to 3.8 billion spam e-mails per day before being taken offline by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab four months ago was created and controlled by a software developer who formerly worked for an antivirus firm, Microsoft said in a civil lawsuit updated yesterday. “Defendant Andrey N. Sabelnikov is an individual residing in St