Credential Manager is a nice security feature but it could be puzzling too

Credential Manager, a security feature previously introduced in Windows Vista, now improved, allows you to store credentials, such as user names and passwords that you use to log on to websites or other computers on a network. In the search box (available when clicking on "Star" or when pressing the "Windows Key", to the left of ALT) type 'credential' and then click on "Credential Manager" when it appears. Same as "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Credential Manager." If you are connected to a network you should be able to see the computers you usually interact with listed in the Windows Credentials section. There is however a puzzling entry in the Generic Credentials section called virtualapp/didlogical which appears to a puzzle for a lot of folks on the Internet, including myself. In Channel 9, people behind the scenes at Microsoft, somebody asks: can someone ​at ​Microsoft ​confirm, ​whether the ​"virtualapp​/didlogical" ​entry in ​the ​Credential ​Manager was ​created by ​Windows ​Live?...

Granted. Microsoft 2010 is supercool, but why preferably in 32-bit version?

One of my favorite features among the many nice, useful features in Office 2010 is the readily available screenshots of the applications (windows), running in your computer at a given time, that you can insert right there into the document you are creating. In the Ribbon, go to the 'Insert' tab and click on the 'Screenshots' icon. Neat. However, on a more general note, it would be interesting to know exactly why the 32-bit Office version (installed by default) is recommended over the 64-bit version, even for 64-bit systems. Perhaps this TechNet article about the 64-bit editions of Office 2010 gives some clues.

Microsoft buys Netflix, Ballmer steps aside... could it happen?

There has always been some sort of symbiosis between Microsoft and Netflix, in spite of initial problems with Silverlight, even his CEO, Reed Hastings, has said publicly that he likes Windows 7, and the idea of the former buying the latter is not as farfetched as it may sound, but for reasons that go beyond likability. In one insightful article that appeared recently in CNNMoney (a service of CNN, Fortune and Money), the author asserts that the best way for Microsoft to turn the stock price around isn't Bill Gates returning, but "Microsoft buying Netflix and Ballmer sharing the CEO spot with Hastings." Netflix could be the core of Microsoft's answer to Apple's iCloud...?

Want to run Windows 7 in legacy hardware?

There's a way, with one of the Microsoft Desktop Virtualization solutions, and it's called Microsoft Windows Thin PC (WinTPC). However, it's only available to Software Assurance (SA) volume licensing customers, in other words, for business purposes. Windows Thin PC has been developed using the Windows Embedded Standard 7 codebase, which in turn has been derived from the proven Windows 7 platform.