Agreeing with the criticism of the process of random mixing in the box, select Windows-default browser, Microsoft has changed the original algorithm.

The company Microsoft has updated the tools for game developers XNA Game Studio to version 4.0, which revealed some of the company's plans for further development of the brand Zune HD and confirmed rumors about the work on the Zune HD 2, reports ZDNet. In comparison with the XNA Game Studio 3.1, the new version added support for Windows Phone 7 Series, which is not surprising, given the company's desire to attract developers to the new platform. But it disappeared Support Zune HD.

In June, Microsoft plans to launch the next generation of Office productivity suite, which can be downloaded as a free beta version. Corporate clients will be able to get the package now May 12. When in early January, Microsoft announced the price for the American market, now the Redmond company also unveiled pricing for Europe.

Microsoft may release two models of cellular phones of its own design this spring. It is reported by RBC daily, with reference to the foreign media. Sources referred to different dates of possible occurrence of phones on the market - April, late spring or early summer of this year.

During the lecture, during the second day of the conference Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, Microsoft has announced the fourth version of the Silverlight browser plug-ins. The first beta version of Silverlight have 4 you can download and test yourself. How informed Scott Guthrie, who is vice president at Microsoft NET Developer Platform team, technical progress in the new version takes place on three fields: handling the media, applications to business processes and changes in the functioning of Silverlight, so that it acted properly regardless of browser.

Today at the launch of programming PDC conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft published a first preliminary version of Office 2010 and new network applications. At this time, subscribers can download them the MSDN and TechNet Plus.

Last week, the columns of many blogs there were reports that Microsoft's tool by which the USB / DVD Download Tool for Windows 7 includes the code under the GPL. As a result of these accusations Microsoft has stated that it would examine the matter and quickly removed the program from the Microsoft Store.

What initially seemed to be calm on a patch, turned out to be the Great Day of lats, especially for users of Excel. Announced six packages removes the total 15 security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Windows. Many of them are classified as a critical indicator of usage and marked 1, which means that the appearance of exploits for these vulnerabilities is highly unlikely.