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Twitter has launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service. Part of the new service is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see some links in email notifications and direct messages from other users written as twt.tl, Twitter said in a blog post.

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Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing

Jim Thomas said no to Windows Vista — but Windows 7 is an entirely different matter. Thomas, CIO at Pella, says his IT team began beta testing Vista’s successor a year ago as an upgrade path from Windows XP

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IT gives Windows 7 the green light

Microsoft will officially launch Office 2010 to businesses at an event slated for May 12, the company announced today. Enterprises with volume license agreements will be able to obtain the finished product that same day, Microsoft added. Office 2010 is set to go on general sale to consumers and business without licensing deals sometime in June

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Microsoft will launch Office 2010 May 12

Microsoft will discontinue development of Windows Essential Business Server ( EBS ) as of June 30, the company announced via a blog .

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Microsoft pulls plug on business server package

Microsoft ’s idea that the fight against malware could be funded by an Internet tax is “horrible,” an analyst said Thursday as other experts weighed in on a recent comment by the company’s security chief.

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Microsoft’s tax-for-hacks ‘horrible’ idea, say security experts

With all the attention focused on Apple suing HTC in the last few days, you might have forgotten that Apple has been embroiled in another legal dispute, instituted by rival mobile phone maker Nokia .

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U.S. judge suspends Apple-Nokia case

Smartphone maker High Tech Computer (HTC) on Wednesday defended itself against accusations of patent infringement by Apple , saying it develops its own technology.

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HTC insists technology is its own, not Apple’s

Oracle made significant increases this week in the cost of technical certification exams for Sun and Oracle technologies.

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Oracle hikes certification testing fees

How will we ever get a leg up on hackers who are infecting computers worldwide? Microsoft’s security chief laid out several suggestions Tuesday, including a possible Internet usage tax to pay for the inspection and quarantine of machines. Today most hacked PCs run Microsoft’s Windows operating system, and the company has invested millions in trying to fight the problem.

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Microsoft exec suggests Internet tax to pay for cyber security