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Microsoft plans to begin rolling out its latest service refresh to its Live@edu academic customers in February 2011, according to a UK Live@edu team blog post. View the full article

Supersite Microsoft has released its free Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 anti-malware solution. Upgrade today! ... View the full article

Supersite Microsoft this week quietly released a second major version of its free security solution for individuals and very small businesses, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 2.0. This version of the product looks and works much like its predecessor, but unlike the original version, which appeared in September 2009, the new version offers deeper integration with other Windows-based security technologies ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including a massive set of potential updates to Windows Phone 7 in 2011, Microsoft's backpedaling on the usefulness of Google Instant, Hotmail Active Views, Microsoft's HTML 5 video plug-in for Firefox, Microsoft hardware for business, RIM profits and BlackBerry sales, Google's book cataloging to lead to better understanding of language evolution, EU's expansion of the Google investigation, and Apple's dominance of digital music. ... View the full article

Check your firewall settings. I believe one of the updates was for windows firewall and that one could have blocked the scanner. One other thing is to make sure the twain driver was installed with the rest of the drivers. Uninstalling and reinstalling should fix that.

Microsoft released to manufacturing on December 16 its Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 security product. View the full article

The mysterious CPTN Holdings — the organization that bought the 882 Novell patents as part of the terms of the Attachmate acquisition of Novell — has been unmasked. View the full article

There were a lot of promised deliverables on the Azure cloud roadmap that Microsoft unveiled at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October 2010. This week, the Redmondians rolled out more of them, including a public beta of the Windows Azure Virtual Machine Role. View the full article

Supersite Tech news and tidbits of the day, from around the web, including WSJ angst over the iPhone being made in China, a new Windows Live plug-ins site, how not to look lame carrying an iPad (hint: It's impossible), more. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Lync, Office 365, IE9, and Windows Phone—the latest from the industry insider’s industry insider. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Microsoft this week unveiled its Fall 2010 Update for the Bing search service, which will add prettier, more visual search results better performance social networking integration and new mobile apps. The update is just the latest in a long series of updates to the evolving service, which has captured almost 12 percent of the US search market. ... View the full article

Maybe this link will help you. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Open-the-Windows-Update-troubleshooter

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Yes, calendar-wise it is mid-December. But that isn’t stopping Microsoft from calling a new set of social, mobile and local search enhancements it is rolling out to Bing users over the next couple of weeks its “fall update.” View the full article

Forrester Research is warning business users who are ready to move to Microsoft’s Office 2010 — especially from older versions of Microsoft Office — that they may face some easily and not-so-easily remediable pitfalls. View the full article

Supersite Tech news and tidbits of the day, from around the web, including an HTML 5 video extension for Firefox, IE security, Amazon MP3 on Blackberry, A Lulu replacement, more. ... View the full article

Microsoft made the Release Candidate (RC) test build of its Dynamics CRM 2011 offering available for download as of December 14. The global launch of the product is slated for January 20 next year. View the full article

In addition to talking up Windows tablets and slates at the January Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft execs also are expected to use the conference to give another push to Windows Phone 7. But the first “major” update to the WP7 platform may not hit until August or September, my sources claim. View the full article

Supersite Microsoft will deliver a first beta of Windows 8 in 2011, but the company has a lot of work to do if it wants to compete with a simpler new generation of competitors like the iPad and Chrome OS. The first thing the software giant needs to fix is how Windows handles user documents and settings, functionality Microsoft calls user state virtualization. ... View the full article

Microsoft has kicked off an open beta of a new multiplayer game called Neosaurs, which it is attempting to propogate virally via Twitter and Facebook. View the full article

After having a chance to play with the Google Cr-48 Chromebook prototype, I’m stymied as to who the real Chromebook user is supposed to be. So far, I don’t see myself in that category. View the full article

Supersite Amahi makes a home server solution of sorts, which I had never heard of previously, but it looks interesting. And now they're throwing out a bone to Windows Home Server users who are disgruntled over Microsoft's decision to axe Drive Extender in "Vail". ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Yahoo! played the role of the Grinch this week, confirming that it has let go more than 600 employees, or about 4 percent of its workforce. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro As part of its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday event this week, the software giant also announced that it will be backporting an Office 2010 security feature called Office File Validation to Office 2007 and 2003. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Depending on who you talk to, the launch of Windows Phone 7 this past fall has either gone quite well or has been a complete and utter disaster. Of course, I'm presenting this like it's some kind of debate, but if you've been paying attention to the news, it's been all bad. ... View the full article