As part of its partnership with Nokia, Microsoft has published a set of documents and guides to help Symbian/Qt developers learn Windows Phone development. Read More: Windows Phone Developer blog Read the comments on this post

MDOP 2011 R2, now available to download, adds BitLocker management and administration, network booting for the Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit, and a new version of the Asset Inventory Service. Read More: Windows for your Business Blog Read the comments on this post

Microsoft is offering a reward of up to $250,000 for information that leads to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person or people behind the Rustock botnet.

Microsoft has sold more than 400 million Windows 7 licenses since the software’s release 20 months ago, cementing its position as the fastest-selling operating system of all time.

Microsoft has congratulated the Mozilla team for shipping Firefox 5 in the traditional fashion: a cake. A cupcake, to be precise: the small Firefox release earning a suitably sized reward. Read More: Ari Bixhorn’s blog Read the comments on this post

Internet Explorer 9 will be launched at SXSW, and available to download from 9pm PST on March 14th. Read More: Exploring IE blog Read the comments on this post

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is now available to MSDN Subscribers.

Microsoft has launched a new campaign to get people to drop Internet Explorer 6. The company is striving to get global usage below 1 percent, a level which it says will allow most developers to safely ignore it. Read More: The IE6 Countdown Read the comments on this post

Late last night, Microsoft announced that it was resuming the distribution of updates to Samsung Windows Phone 7 handsets. Unfortunately, my Samsung phone is still bricked after it went for a spin through the washing machine. Read More: Windows Phone blog , Windows Phone 7 Update put on hold for Samsung handsets , Everything that can go wrong with Windows Phone 7 update does Read the comments on this post

The release candidate of Windows Home Server 2011, codenamed Vail, is now available.