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Microsoft fixed eight flaws in Windows and Office Tuesday, but passed on patching one Windows component because it cannot be automatically updated.

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Microsoft skips patch for PowerPoint add-on

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

Microsoft is offering its own version of technology acquired last year that offers cross-platform access to the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) application lifecycle management (ALM) platform.

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Microsoft puts its stamp on cross-platform link to ALM server

Microsoft plans to spend $9.5 billion on research and development this year, which a senior executive said Thursday is more than any competitor.

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Microsoft expects to spend $9.5 billion on research in 2010

The typical home user running Windows faces the “unreasonable” task of patching software an average of every five days, a security and vulnerability research company said today.

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Typical Windows user patches every 5 days

Opera Software today said that it has seen a three-fold increase in downloads of its browser since Microsoft started pushing a ballot screen to European users who run Windows.

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Opera downloads triple after browser ballot screen debuts

Microsoft said it has restarted distribution of a security update that had crippled some Windows PCs last month with reboot problems and Blue Screen of Death error screens.

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Microsoft tries again with patch linked to Windows blue screens

Microsoft told Windows XP users today not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE) .

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Microsoft: Don’t press F1 key in Windows XP