OK, Ubuntu is no Windows and Microsoft will say Windows is far more complicated. It has millions more lines of code. It is far more integrated with other products and has a larger ecosystem of hardware and software that it must ensure that it works with. Hence, slower release cycles.

However, Windows 7 was finished ages ago. Yes, we had the first code in in October and a beta in January - during which time very little in the build appears to have changed. We've had performance improvements and bug fixes, but Microsoft's been on the triage fast track, to the alarm of some early testers.

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Microsoft has expanded the Live Search Webmaster Center toolkit with new items designed to sniff for malware. Via the tools added to the Webmaster Center, web content owners will be able to detect malicious code present on their website, or on the pages of a website that they link to.

The Redmond giant's corner of Live Search dedicated to webmasters has offered from the get-go the possibility of assessing a site's outbound links. With the new tools the company has simply taken these capabilities one step further, with the addition of the malware detection feature, permitting webmasters to filter links that could pose risks to users. Microsoft informed that the links pointing to web content used to spread malicious code would be disabled, with the Live Search engine automatically flagging them as malware, and permitting webmasters to filter links that could pose risks to users.

Microsoft isn't having much luck with the redesign of Hotmail, which is currently playing havoc with thousands of user's emails.

The software giant has, er, "thanked" nearly 2,000 frustrated Hotmail peeps who have complained about the new interface.