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There's been a few pieces of news regarding Office 2010 recently; most have involved screenshots, or something of the like, but here's something we think you'll really enjoy: Microsoft has opened the sign-up pages for the Office 2010 Technical Preview, which will be hitting a PC near you sometime in July this year.

Microsoft’s TechEd is an enterprise show, but that didn’t stop the Softies from leading off with Windows 7 client in its kick-off keynote on May 11.

Office 2010 will begin rolling out to a wider cross-section of testers starting this July, according to Microsoft officials.

Internet Explorer 8 was released in March, 2009 after being worked on for around two years. Although there are some nice new features, and many improvements over IE7, Microsoft’s Web browser old, outdated and slower than a snail hitching a ride on the back of a dead tortoise. Is there any point in developing Internet Explorer 9, really?

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), which again fell to a new market share low last month, is on a pace of decline that will push the once overwhelming dominant browser under 50% by this time in 2011, according to new Web usage data.

According to the Microsoft Security Response Center, Microsoft will issue one Security Bulletin on Tuesday, and it will host a webcast to address customer questions on the bulletin the following day (May 13 at 11:00am PST, if you're interested).

After reading last month’s Microsoft Surface installation horror story, it’s a nice surprise to see the Surface not taking itself too seriously during the setup process. Flickr user “mulmatsherm” captured these photos of the Surface when it was presumably just being initialized for the first time. The text on screen reads “I’m just a table right now - Check back later”. At least it’s honest.

Microsoft has issues a statement saying they will issue a "critical" patch this coming Tuesday to fix a flaw in Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The single update is oddly timed, after Microsoft released eight patches to fix 23 vulnerabilities only days ago. Critical patches are the highest rating Microsoft gives to updates, issuing an urgent warning to install the needed fix.

Now you can add email accounts to your Windows Live Hotmail account, so you can read all your mail at one place.

So, there are two ways to look at this: the first is that this television set costs almost as much as many homes, while the second is that it's around $40,000 cheaper than the Euro-conversion price.