Be warned of a very authentic looking email claiming to be from Microsoft saying you need to install an update patch for Outlook. Microsoft DOES NOT send out such notices. Do not click links in emails just because they look valid. Below is a copy of the email:

Microsoft has announced it will no longer be selling MS Money.

http://www.microsoft.com/money/default.mspx

Read that post carefully because it has something in it that I think is going to be an issue in the near future with XP. Even if you own MS Money they will not activate it after January 31,  2011. Intuit already does this with QuickBooks in that they will not activate unsupported versions. I am very curious to see what happens when millions of people who own a valid license to a software application or OS can no longer reinstall it because the vendor won’t support activation.

Finally something worth listening to coming from the Government. This is from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) which a joint office of the enforcement of the FBI and the outside non-enforcement of folks like the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C).

• Do you visit websites by clicking on links within an email?
• Do you reply to emails from companies or persons you are not familiar with?
• Have you received packages to hold or ship to someone you met on the Internet?
• Have you been asked to cash checks and wire funds to an employer you met online?
• Would you cash checks or money orders received through an online transaction without first confirming their legitimacy?
• Would you provide your personal/banking information as a result of an email notification?

 

As I posted here months and months ago Microsoft will launch Windows 7 in October is this report from ComputerWorld is correct.

So if you read my post way back in January and even earlier post you would already have known what Microsoft released as "news" today.