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So, the good news is,Microsoft Web Apps goes live in June. Bad news? I’ll get to that in a minute…
Web Apps is the free version of Microsoft Office 2010 – a direct competitor to Google Docs. Free versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will all be available once Office 2010 hits retail stores. Currently, [...]
I have to say I’m happy with this. Especially at this early stage of the Office 2010 game. Microsoft, using a fuzzing botnet, has tapped into the computing power of idle PCs on their network to uncover 1800 bugs with Office 2010. It is important to note, these are not all security fixes, but they [...]
On day one of the security convention, pretty much everything was hacked. Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari – both on OS X 10.6 and on the iPhone were all compromised. The vendors all get to know how it happened, and hopefully they can patch for the hacks that were used.
What’s unsettling to me, is the [...]
When given the option of which browser to use, EU consumers are choosing Opera! Doubling their download rate is huge, and I, for one, am pretty happy for them. What I don’t understand, though, is why Microsoft is anti-competitve, but Apple isn’t.
The backstory: you may or may not recall anti-trust lawsuits against Microsoft. To make [...]
Happily, Microsoft has confirmed, and launched, the free Office 2010 upgrade that was leaked last month.
To sum up: Purchase and activate Office 2007 between March 5 and September 30 of this year, and you get a free download of Office 2010 when it comes out of Beta. You must buy from an authorized reseller (read: [...]
Reporting from the “Are you serious? You can’t be serious! Wait, you’re serious?” department, Scott Charney – Microsoft Vice President for Trustworthy Computing, has proposed a general usage Internet tax to help fight malware.
I would like to repeat that. Microsoft, a company with a brand valued at $76 Billion and reporting $6.7 Billion in profits, [...]
In a move to further annoy IT administrators everywhere, Microsoft released a beta of a social network link for Outlook today. It was already part of the beta for Office 2010, but now is available for 2003 and 2007 as well.
There are some nice and convenient tools with this thing, don’t get me wrong. My [...]
You should do it, too. In response to recent attacks, Microsoft is finally patching a zero-day vulnerability (info here and here) in Internet Explorer. Without standing on my soapbox too much, this has been a problem since IE6 – way to be on the ball, guys.
The good news is, they claim they are patching all of [...]
