Two senior engineering managers just started a blog(E7Blog) dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7. On it, you can track progress of the new OS of windows. Also you can throw ideas on it.
Here are the links to official E7Blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/

Yes, they making an update for Windows Update. Microsoft will roll-out their new infrastructure update to the Windows Update agent. The update will be much faster and less sucky for Vista. The said update will occur not only with Vista it also highly priority with XP also. Source

With the recent massive number of SQL injection attacks on the internet this year. Scrawlr, the latest tool developed by HP Web Security Research Group to monitor SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Tool intends to identify Verbose SQL Injection vulnerabilities in URL parameters. It reports the SQL server and table names if it comes across anything.
The tool [...]

Microsoft reserve 20% of your available
bandwidth for their updates
and interrogating your machine etc..
Here’s how:
Click Start–>Run–>type

gpedit.msc

This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy>>Computer Configuration>>Administrative Templates>>Network>>QOS Packet Scheduler>>Limit Reservable Bandwidth
Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the ‘Explain’ tab :

“By default, the [...]