All operating systems are made of thousands of software pieces, many of them being read, modified and rewritten again to the HD in a permanent process while you are using your computer. Incidences as cuts in the electric supply, viruses, failed install or uninstall operations or the use of wrong software, mean a permanent danger for the OS, eventually blocking your machine and forcing you to format the C drive.

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Microsoft is aware that research has been published detailing a remote attack vector for a class of vulnerabilities that affects how applications load external libraries. This issue is caused by specific insecure programming practices that allow so-called "binary planting" or "DLL preloading attacks". These practices could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the vulnerable application when the user opens a file from an untrusted location.

VMware is developing a new hosted service with the code name "Project Horizon" that will allow delivery of cloud-based desktop applications to any sort of user device, and perhaps further its goal of diminishing the importance of Microsoft's Windows operating system.

Security expert Ruben Santamarta has discovered an undocumented parameter in QuickTime's ActiveX plug-in that allows attackers to reportedly inject malicious code. For an attack to be successful, victims only have to visit a specially crafted website. The attacker adds an object pointer to the _Marshaled_pUnk parameter and submits it to the plug-in, causing QuickTime to access functions in third-party DLLs.

Microsoft pumped out fresh beta builds of its first service packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 late last week. The company released Windows SP1 public betas for the firm’s current operating system at its annual partner shindig in July this year.

Google has unveiled a new feature that will enable users to make phone calls from within their Gmail accounts using the Google Voice service. The new service builds on Google's voice and video chat for Gmail, introduced in 2008, by using the Gmail interface to initiate calls to people's mobile and wireline phones. Previously, both users had to be in front of their computers.

The group that licenses patents for the widely used H.264 video encoding and streaming technology has committed to charge no royalties ever for use by Web sites that use it for freely available video.

After making them available to TechNet subscribers last month, Microsoft has released betas of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to the general public.

Microsoft Live Labs' Seadragon project now doubles as a social image host. The technology, which allows large images to be loaded and scaled at high speeds while zooming and panning, powers a new media sharing and exploring service called Zoom.it.

A new, more social Google is on the way. Google confirmed reports it is headed into the world of social media Wednesday with its purchase of Slide. Slide is a media company that develops games, widgets, and applications designed specifically to be used in social media. Remember SuperPoke? The Facebook application that lets you throw virtual sheep, or blow a kiss at your Facebook friends? That's Slide.

Kevin Mitnick was eager to participate in a social-engineering contest at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas last weekend and was told he would target Microsoft in the event. He figured it would be fun to show off his schmoozing skills, which he so easily used to trick employees at tech companies in the 1990s into handing over passwords and other sensitive information, ultimately landing him in jail.

Hoping to leapfrog over Google and Apple's successes in the smartphone market, Microsoft plans to use cloud-based speech recognition and natural language processing technology to offer user interface capabilities not found on the iPhone or Android devices.

The fourth and final developer's preview of Internet Explorer 9 was released on Wednesday, with significant updates to standards compliance and rendering speed, according to Microsoft. Microsoft said in a blog post that the developer's previews had been downloaded more than 2.5 million times, indicating that despite Internet Explorer's plummeting market share over the past few years, developer interest in seeing it improve remains high.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday that Google believes that some 200,000 new Android devices are being sold each day, leading to significant revenue in the form of increased mobile search traffic.

Acer's latest crack at combining Google's Android mobile software and Microsoft's Windows XP OS in the same netbook was unveiled at a computer show in Taipei today. The Acer Aspire One AOD255 netbook uses Android as a quick-booting operating system and then Windows as the main operating system.

Although some had hoped that Microsoft would reverse its own patching policy, the company has stuck to its guns and declined to provide a fix for a critical bug to users running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Oh, that Microsoft. She's such a tease. Microsoft has some sort of new hardware product in the works, and it's revealing it only one tiny corner at a time. The kooky crew from Redmond created a new Twitter account -- @msfthardware -- and has been using it to send out subtle clues about its latest creation.

The new "Froyo" Google Android 2.2 software being offered by Verizon Wireless for its Motorola Droid smartphone seems to have everything a user could want except two of the most sought-after features: tethering and hotspot access.

The shuffle of having to log off, then back on to your Google account to open up Google services from different accounts, but in the same browser instance, is soon to be a thing of the past.

Windows 7 will continue to enable the widest range of people across the world to use Windows in their own language by providing Language Interface Packs in over 55 languages. LIPs are built using MUI technology and provide translation of the UI (User Interface) most commonly used by Windows users. LIPs do not require a separate software license.  They are available to downloaded for free and installed on any edition of a Genuine copy of Windows 7: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate.