Gregg Keizer

Recruits accomplices by spreading links via Twitter that auto-starts attack tool

The software giant claims Comet made $2.2M selling superfluous recovery discs to customers

Also gives IT admins more control over PDF docs' oft-exploited JavaScript

Microsoft's Windows XP shed a large amount of usage share again last month as users continued to desert the decade-old operating system for Windows 7

The demand for downloads crashes the company's server within hours of the launch of the app

No clue of the cause, but users rant about explicit and violent images flooding news feeds

There was no change in pricing as the company upped processor speeds and hard disk sizes across the line

The software giant gives customers a six-month window to test and deploy before the suite leaves mainstream support next April. The suite will continue to be updated with security fixes for another five years after that during the "extended support" phase