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Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in ASP.NET. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could read data, such as the view state, which was encrypted by the server. This vulnerability can also be used for data tampering, which, if successfully exploited, could be used to decrypt and tamper with the data encrypted by the server. Microsoft .NET Framework versions prior to Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 are not affected by the file content disclosure portion of this vulnerability. View the full article

Roku serves up the first entry in this year's perfect storm of new and improved digital media set top boxes for the living room, with a suite of low-cost players for Netflix, Amazon On Demand, and other online services. View the full article

It’s been rumored for a while now that Microsoft was going to pull the plug on the blogging platform component of Windows Live (known as Windows Live Spaces). On September 27, company officials made that decision official and public. View the full article

On September 28, Microsoft will hold its annual company meeting at Safeco field in downtown Seattle. Other than arranging for comedian Amy Sedaris to play host, what do CEO Steve Ballmer and company have planned? View the full article

In this week's mailbag, configuring Handbrake DVD rips for Zune and other Microsoft solutions, which headsets I use for the podcast, how to consolidate multiple Windows Live IDs, converting the audio from YouTube videos into MP3 files, and the secret behind the people seen in the poster behind me while I'm recording Windows Weekly. View the full article

In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and Paul discuss Paul's first week with a DROID X smart phone, some thoughts on Android's place in the market, a big Zune services expansion, an coming Xbox Live software update, Microsoft's opening of Security Essentials to very small businesses, and the Small Business Server 7 public preview. View the full article

In this week's Internet Explorer 9 Feature Focus, I take a look at the new Notification Bar, a quieter, less disruptive replacement for the Information Bar from previous IE versions. View the full article

Welcome Lex.

As part of its Lync family — the new and improved name for Office Communications Server starting with the 2010 release — is getting a new Mac client. View the full article

Less than a week ago, Microsoft blogger Paul Thurrott mention a supposed TechNet bug, via which subscribers to Microsoft’s TechNet service were missing some of their product-license keys. It turns out this wasn’t a bug it’s a “feature,” according to Microsoft. View the full article

So many Microsoft-related tidbits today, and so little time to write them all up. Here are a few that caught my eye during my daily content-consumption rounds, including updates on BizTalk Server 2010, IE 9 requirements, Google’s Chrome Frame IE impersonator and more…. View the full article

The Hotmail Wave 4 refresh, which Microsoft execs said was completed in early August, is turning into more of a rolling rollout. View the full article

Ever since Microsoft launched Office 2010 this past summer, I’ve been hearing from small-business users who were dismayed with Microsoft’s new licensing restrictions on its updated Business Contact Manager (BCM) component. Microsoft has heard the gripes, too, and on September 23, said they were addressing them. View the full article

Until today, Microsoft’s advice to developers interested in writing Windows Phone 7 applications was to use C#, Silverlight or XNA. But on September 23, Microsoft officials said they’d be adding another requested tool to the Windows Phone 7 arsenal: Visual Basic. View the full article

On the heels of canceling its Bing Search Cashback program, Microsoft is trying its hand at another attempt to increase search share using rewards, known as Bing Rewards. View the full article

Microsoft officials confirmed today what I reported last month: Its Oslo data-modeling platform has been almost completely obliterated. View the full article

In an about-face, Microsoft is now planning to offer its free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) antivirus/antimalware suite to small businesses, and not just consumers. View the full article

A long-time member of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team, Chris Wilson, has left Microsoft and is joining Google in November. View the full article

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With growing speculation that Microsoft is pushing to deliver the final version of its Internet Explorer (IE) 9 browser as early as spring 2011, company officials issued official guidance, advising business users against postponing their Windows 7 deployments to wait for the coming browser release. View the full article

It looks like Microsoft is continuing to incubate its stealth Midori operating system project. On September 18, a thinly-veiled Midori reference appeared on a blog of one of its team members who noted that the OS incubation project on which he works is actively hiring. View the full article

Microsoft is releasing to interested testers a preview test version of the next version of its Small Business Server, known as “SBS 7,” on September 21. View the full article

Google's Android smart phone OS is lacking in two areas--its online apps marketplace and digital media acquistion and syncing--but is otherwise dramatically superior to the iPhone. It's no wonder that Android has already surpassed the Apple offering. View the full article

Back in February of this year, word was that 24-year Microsoft veteran Brian Arbogast had decided to leave the company — right around the time that Terry Myerson took control of Windows Phone Engineering, including both software and services. It turns out Arbogast has flown the coop, as of August, after a multi-month sabbatical. View the full article

In this week's mailbag, how to remove Windows XP from a dual-boot with Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9 doesn't load add-ons in pinned web sites, 64-bit IE 9 and pinned web sites, a TechNet Standard subscription service scale-back, GOG.com goes dark, and Ed Bott's guide to installing iTunes 10 without the bloat. View the full article