Network World is reporting that businesses upgrading to Windows 7 fueled an increase in demand for project and desktop support staff last month, according to a recent study.

The security experts on the Solution Accelerators team have been working with government agencies, IT security pros, and other Microsoft security experts to develop a new tool called the Security Compliance Manager.

Yesterday, Microsoft released 11 security bulletins to address no fewer than 25 vulnerabilities in various editions of Windows from Windows 2000 to Windows 7.

PCmover Professional is a migration tool that can transfer not only documents and settings, but entire working applications from an older PC onto a new system.

Pirated copies of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) leaked to the Internet last week, searches at several BitTorrent sites show. The purported Windows 7 SP1 build was tagged as “6.1.7601.16537.100327-0053,” indicating that it was compiled by Microsoft on March 27, 2010.

Keystone Learning Systems have over 20 years experience in the industry, building a trusted brand and providing cutting edge training solutions to many of the fortune 500 companies world-wide.

Mary Jo Foley is reporting that under a new support policy, Microsoft will begin providing limited break/fix troubleshooting to customers running unsupported service packs.

Zinstall is a family of products that provide end-point PC migration solutions unavailable with conventional technologies and tools.

The Google Tablet device, according to the New York Times, will be “an e-reader that would function like a computer.”

So close is it that Eric Schmidt, CEO at Google, was describing it to friends at “a recent party in Los Angeles.”

That’s really startling considering that the Ipad was just launched a few days ago…

Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) began shipping its long-awaited Visual Studio 2010 development toolset Monday, offering support for Windows 7, Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, and the latest releases of SharePoint Server  and Windows Phone. Microsoft also shipped .NET  Framework 4 Monday and said Silverlight 4, a new version of the Web rich-application framework, will be released later [...]

Cool article on ZDNet about a new piece of software called Desktop Connect that allows you to control your Windows 7 PC remotely from your Ipad. It costs $11.99 “an introductory price” to download it to your iPad. It uses RDP natively, but can also work with VNC servers. According to ZDNet, the documentation the [...]