Would you like to keep track of all the news, and articles that are going around on the Internet? How about keeping track of the weather in your area? Or simply keeping track of this blog? Well here is my pick of the week.

This Weeks Winning Pick is:
http://www.netvibes.com/

This is a rss/xml tracker or news page as i call it. It can keep track of your email, your local weather, your favorite news websites, this wonderful blog, PC news websites etc…

I picked it because its very simple to edit, and keeps me very organized. All you need to do is create a account, and you don’t even need to activate it!

I just ask one thing, that i only suggest you do, add my blog,
http://windowscorp.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Hope you like my pick of the week!

Enjoy,
- HotShot

Microsoft files suit against a company and individuals accused of sending debt relief and porn spam to Hotmail accounts.

Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Saturday, June 23, 2007 9:00 AM PDT

Microsoft Corp. has filed two lawsuits over the past weeks, looking to crack down on spam on its Windows Live Hotmail network.

The “John Doe” lawsuits were filed against unknown alleged spammers who had been sending large quantities of spam advertising debt relief and adult Web sites to Hotmail accounts.
Microsoft alleges that a company doing business under the name Consumer Solutions Network sent “misleading, deceptive, and unsolicited commercial e-mails advertising debt relief help to Windows Live Hotmail account holders.”

The spam contained subject lines such as “Michelle, accounts over the limit,” or “Robert, Payment not received,” the suit alleges.

Consumer Solutions Network, which could not be reached for comment on this story, operates several Internet domains including myfinancialsolutions.org, consumersolution.org, and financialsolutionsonline.org, according to Microsoft.

Microsoft has also sued unnamed defendants for sending spam that promoted pornographic Web sites through Hotmail. Microsoft claims that these spammers not only flooded Hotmail accounts with unwanted messages, but also used Hotmail itself to send large volumes of

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Microsoft has forced developers to close down a project to revive the original Windows client code-named “Longhorn.”

Microsoft Corp. has forced developers to close down a project aimed at reviving the original Windows client code-named “Longhorn.”

According to a blog posting on the site maintained by developers on the project — called “Longhorn Reloaded” — Microsoft sent a “cease and desist” letter to the project leaders asking them to shut it down shortly after the team posted the first release of the project online.

“It deeply saddens me that although Microsoft have known about this project for many months they only issued us with this notice a few days after we started to distribute” the first release, according to a post earlier this month on joejoe.org.Community. “I am just as sorry as you guys are about this, but we got [sic] to think about the community as a whole first.”

Longhorn Reloaded Milestone 1 was released May 19 on the project’s Web site, but the post informing users the project has shut down said download links and any threads about the project will no longer be active.

Through its public relations…

Social-networking sites are using up such huge amounts of bandwidth that ISPs, universities, and businesses struggle to keep pace.

Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World

Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace.

The trend is prompting some network operators to upgrade their DNS systems, while others are blocking the sites altogether. Moreover, the “MySpace Effect” is expected to hit many more nets soon, as these network-intensive interactive features migrate from specialty sites to mainstream e-commerce operations and intranets.

“Social media is not just going to be in pure-play sites like MySpace and Facebook. It’s going to become increasingly prevalent across retailers, media and entertainment,” says Mike Afergan, CTO of Akamai, a content delivery network company that supports MySpace, Facebook and Friendster. “It drives a lot more requests and a lot more bit-traffic across these networks.”

The demanding nature of social-networking sites was highlighted in May when the Department of Defense announced it was blocking worldwide access to 13 Web sites, including MySpace and YouTube.

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A Microsoft executive says that–six months after shipping Windows Vista–it has left more publicly disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows XP.

A Microsoft Corp. security executive released data Thursday showing that, six months after shipping Windows Vista, his company has left more publicly disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows XP.

In total, Microsoft has patched 12 out of 27 disclosed Vista vulnerabilities in the six months after it first shipped last November. During XP’s first six months, Microsoft’s security team patched 36 out of 39 known bugs.

The data was published by Jeff Jones, a Microsoft security strategy director, who said that overall, Vista was doing better than XP. “Windows Vista continues to show a trend of fewer total and fewer high-severity vulnerabilities at the six month mark compared to its predecessor product, Windows XP,” he wrote.

Jones didn’t address the larger number of unpatched vulnerabilities, but he did note most of the unpatched Vista bugs were not critical. Microsoft had left only one high-severity Vista vulnerability unpatched during the period. At the end of XP’s first six months, there were two high-severity bugs that were unpatched.