1. Microsoft Changes Virtualization Licensing Rules
Microsoft has made substantial changes to its virtualization licensing program, changes that will lower the cost of using virtualization for many customers.
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2. Windows 7 Gets a Blog
Microsoft's team developing the Windows 7 operating system has come out with a new blog called "Engineering Windows 7."
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3. Vulnerability Management Needed for Security, Study Says
Companies can avoid attacks and minimize security cost overruns by practicing IT vulnerability management, according to a July study published by the Aberdeen Group.
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4. Intel Releases Interface for USB 3.0
Intel Corp. on Tuesday shared technical plans for an important element needed to develop the Universal Serial Bus 3.0 (USB 3.0) specification.
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5. OOXML Reaffirmed, ISO/IEC Reject Appeals
The boards of the ISO and IEC standards bodies today rejected the appeals of four participating members (Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela) that had questioned the process by which Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format specification was approved as an international standard, called "ISO/IEC 29500."
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6. Microsoft Ships Visual Studio 2008 and .NET SP1
In what promises to be the most significant release for .NET developers this year, Microsoft today released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
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7. Microsoft's August Patch Brings 11 Security Fixes
Microsoft's August patch, slated to be the largest patch rollout since 12 bulletins hit users in February of 2007, came up one short of that record with today's release.
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8. SQL Injection Attacks on the Rise
According to security researcher MessageLabs, the number of SQL injection attacks spiked sharply last month, helping account for a near doubling of the number of malicious Web sites it identified and blocked each day.
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9. Networking Job Sector Is Booming, IDC Says
If The Graduate's Mr. McGuire were to give Ben Braddock one word of career advice today, it might very well be "networking" and not plastics.
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10. Survey: IT Hiring and Pay Still Up, But Employers 'Cautious'
With the U.S. economy still circling  and unemployment on the rise, it's a good time to be in IT -- relatively speaking.
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