Brief email outage at 1:20p

Email service was interrupted briefly at approximately 1:20p due to an issue with a load-balanced server

Security Vulnerability in Windows Gadgets & Sidebar

Windows Gadgets (a feature of Windows 7) and Sidebar (a feature of Windows Vista) have been disabled due to a security vulnerability. Microsoft has indicated that this will be the permanent fix to the vulnerability.

Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2719662