Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook's estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information.

A few months later than had been expected, Mozilla is calling it quits for version 3.0 of its Firefox browser. "There will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x," Mozilla said in a meeting planning document on Tuesday.

If you’re still running XP after all these years, odds are you’ve settled in nicely and don’t plan to leave until you have no choice. Well, that might be happening sooner than you expected. Microsoft announced today that they were working on Internet Explorer 9, and that it would not support Windows XP.

 Industry standards and innovation took center stage at MIX10, as Microsoft Corp. made a series of announcements that underscore the company's commitment to interoperability and performance on the Web. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer at Microsoft, unveiled the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview including expanded support for HTML5, hardware-accelerated graphics and text, and a new JavaScript engine. Together these allow developers to use the same markup and deliver graphically and functionally rich Web applications that take advantage of modern PC hardware through a modern operating system.

App-DNA, the application compatibility specialist, has produced a free checklist for enterprises planning their Windows 7 migrations. The ‘Windows 7 Application Migration Checklist’ contains useful tips and insights into App-DNA’s experience with the previous six Microsoft OS and Service Pack migrations. A quick and easy read, it offers significant value by helping enterprises to save time and effort.

DivX, Inc., a leading digital media company, today announced that the latest version of the Company's flagship video software package, DivX Plus Software, is now available as a free download for Windows 7, Vista and XP on the Company's website.

With the publication of an exploit that takes advantage of a newly found Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day flaw, Microsoft's security mavens say they are working on a patch. In the meantime, they have created an automated Microsoft "Fix It" script that can reconfigure some users' systems to avoid the vulnerability. Along with other workarounds offered by the company, the move could help protect many customers -- but not all who are currently at risk.

 The new Windows Phone 7 platform will avoid multitasking third-party apps, nix support for user-replaceable memory cards, and demand that all apps be installed from Windows Phone Marketplace, a Microsoft executive said Monday.

Charlie Kindel, who is in charge of Microsoft's Windows Phone developer strategy, described a much more controlled, iPhone-like experience for formerly freewheeling Microsoft in an interview at the MIX10 conference here.

Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years. By early 2011 all hard drives will use an "advanced format" that changes how they go about saving the data people store on them.

Devil Mountain Software has been a thorn in the side of Microsoft for years and is adept at garnering headlines. The latest effort is a report claiming that 86 percent of Windows 7 PCs were gobbling up too much memory. Can you trust these findings and the company overall? The short answer: No. Here’s why.