The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed by the U.S. Congress July, 2005, extended Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the U.S. by approximately four weeks. As a result, beginning in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier on March 11, 2007, and end one week later on November 4, 2007, resulting in a new DST period that is four weeks longer than previously observed. These four weeks are referred to in this article as the "extended DST period".

Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch on a new feature in Internet Explorer 7 meant to combat phishing scams. The software giant in early January made a change on its computer systems that allowed websites fitted with a new type of security certificate to display a green-filled address bar in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), Markellos Diorinos, a product manager for Windows at Microsoft, said in an interview.

We have recently received notice from Symantec and other vendors that they are dropping support for their product(s) that are running in a Windows 95/98 environment. This was to be expected, however it has the potential for having a pretty dramatic effect on customers that are still running Windows 9x computers or older servers running Windows NT or Novell NetWare 5.x and below.