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Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. This security update is rated Important for all supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. All supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not affected by the vulnerability. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Information Services (IIS). The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a client sends a specially crafted HTTP request to the server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opened or previewed a specially crafted e-mail message using an affected version of Microsoft Outlook that is connected to an Exchange server with Online Mode. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Unicode Scripts Processor. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted document or Web page with an application that supports embedded OpenType fonts. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in MPEG-4 codec. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted media file or receives specially crafted streaming content from a Web site or any application that delivers Web content. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Print Spooler service. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a specially crafted print request to a vulnerable system that has a print spooler interface exposed over RPC. By default, printers are not shared on any currently supported Windows operating system. View the full article

Apple's new iPod shuffle 5G and iPod nano 5G don't move the dial as much as the new iPod touch, but they're both competent digital audio players. View the full article

Make sure you set the server to run scripts in 32bit mode. That should fix the problem.

Microsoft is working on a new physical-to-virtual (P2V) tool for helping customers move legacy applications to Windows 7 using virtualization technology. View the full article

Just days after I posted about the (not so) crazy rumor I heard about Microsoft readying a Zune HD2, WMPoweruser unearthed a job description that made it sound like such a device is, indeed, in the making. View the full article

Microsoft has made available a near-final Release Candidate (RC) version of its Office Communications Server (OCS) product, which is being renamed Lync Server. View the full article

Apple's new 4th generation iPod touch is an almost perfect portable media player, but it suffers from some frustrating and purposeful limitations, including most obviously its low quality cameras. View the full article

In this week's mailbag, whether Windows Home Server "Vail" can back up itself, how not to write me an email, syncing folders between PCs, what can and can't be pinned to the Windows 7 taskbar, more missing features from Windows 7 Starter, and differing support on Windows Phone 7 for SharePoint and Windows Live SkyDrive. View the full article

In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss whether Windows users should abandon Apple's openly antagonistic products, rumors of an international Zune services launch, Google instant search, Microsoft vs. Botnet, Mark Hurd's messy move to Oracle, and more. View the full article

Here's a third set of useful Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts, including one I'd never heard of before: A way to automatically resize columns in Explorer's Details view. View the full article

More than likely the version you get will be OEM and tied to the computer you buy. You could try calling Microsoft to activate, but, I doubt it will work.

Windows 7 includes a new Jump List-like utility for finding and connecting to Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, dial-up, and VPN connections. Unlike the similar UI in Windows Vista, this utility, called View Available Networks, does not require you to navigate through a series of dialogs and windows. View the full article

To finish out the week, here are Microsoft news items from around the Web on Windows Phone 7, Azure, BPOS and more. View the full article

Microsoft Research is working on a project known as “HomeOS,” which will provide a way to isolate non/less-technical users from the heterogeneous and often incompatible mess of devices they are attempting to network at home. View the full article

As the 9to5 Mac site noted on September 10, it looks like Amazon.com has leaked again another Microsoft launch date and pricing. View the full article

Stephen Elop, the President of Microsoft’s Business unit, is leaving Microsoft to become the CEO of Nokia. Who will become the new head of Office at Microsoft? View the full article

Lync looks to be the new name of Microsoft’s next version of the Communicator client for Office Communications Server 14, Microsoft

Microsoft officials posted an apology the evening of September 8 for three recent outages for customers of its Microsoft-hosted cloud applications. View the full article

Microsoft is signing up testers, as of September 9, who want to kick the tires of the company’s next-generation CRM software, service and app store. View the full article

I'm kicking off a new edition of the Digital Media Core series, starting with my pick for the one true video format, H.264, which is compatible across Windows 7, Zune, Xbox 360 and of course the Apple products. View the full article