Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows Live, Chrome attacks

Let's look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. 

90 percent of Windows 7 flaws fixed by removing admin rights: 90 percent of the vulnerabilities in Windows 7 are mitigated by configuring users to operate without administrator rights.

Windows Live Wave 4 Milestone 2 leaked, screenshots galore: Milestone 2 of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 has leaked. Screenshots and details inside of what we saw.

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Week in Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 and Internet Explorer 9

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.

Platform Preview gives Web developers first taste of IE9: Microsoft has released the Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview for Web developers to start playing around with Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft is promising to update it approximately every eight weeks with the latest IE9 builds.

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Week in Microsoft: browser ballot arrives, to go global?

Let's look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories:

Coding error leads to uneven EU browser ballot distribution: The distribution of browser choices on the EU browser ballot released this month to Windows users is uneven. Internet Explorer shows up in the right-most position 50 percent of the time for current IE users, an outcome that's due to Microsoft attempting to shuffle the browsers using JavaScript's sort function.

Microsoft rivals push to send browser ballot on world tour: The lobbying group European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), which is composed of many Microsoft rivals including Opera, is urging the rest of the world to push Microsoft into offering the browser ballot screen.

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Week in Microsoft: more Windows Phone 7 Series details

Let’s look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories:

Leaked: WinPhone 7 Series dev to use almost all managed code: More details are emerging about the application development situation on Windows Phone 7 Series. We now know that managed code is the order of the day. But many questions still remain.

Windows Phone 7 Series to have three chassis: Microsoft will reportedly have three separate chassis for Windows Phone 7 Series for its partners and customers to choose from.

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