New Windows 7 users are reporting that upgrading to the new operating system can be a pain, and while the new release has its bugs, it’s worth the effort to get them sorted.
Thirty-one percent of users that have been experiencing trouble with Windows 7 have reported problems with upgrading to the operating system. The data [...]

Don’t worry, company tells users; NSA involved only in security compliance standards
Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system.
“Microsoft has not and will not put ‘backdoors’ [...]

Microsoft will release on Tuesday guidelines for developers building online applications and for those utilizing the Agile code-development process.
The Agile guidelines apply principles from Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) to Agile, an umbrella term for a development model frequently used for Web-based applications released under short deadlines, called “sprints.”
Microsoft adopted the SDL following the company’s [...]

In an effort to promote the “general health of the Web,” Google will send Webmasters snippets of malicious code in the hopes infected Web sites can be cleaned up faster.
The new information will appear as part of Google’s Webmaster Tools, a suite of tools that provide data about a Web site, such as site visits.
Google [...]

As previously anticipated, Chrome OS is a Linux distribution that includes a custom version of Chrome as the default browser. Google has recently posted a build of the custom Chrome and some people installed the .deb package (it’s no longer available officially, but you can download it from other sources).
Chrome for Chrome OS is not [...]