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Today was Microsoft's final Patch Tuesday of 2009. Microsoft released a total of six new security bulletins, the most urgent one affecting a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer for which exploit code already exists.
Associated Press - December 8, 2009 11:24 AM ET DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Gov. Chet Culver says Iowa schools will get more than $60 million from the settlement of a lawsuit against Microsoft...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search market.
It takes a long time to drive every street in the world to supply your online map service with 3D data. Navteq is giving Microsoft some help for its new Bing maps.
Patch Tuesday will address a vulnerability in Internet Explorer severe enough that Microsoft considered an out-of-band patch. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday also addresses a Windows Server 2008 flaw that could be disruptive and a Project 2000 problem.
Security firm Sophos says Windows 7 is far from secure and highly vulnerable to the latest viruses. Microsoft insists Windows 7 builds on features in Windows Vista, "the most secure Windows operating system ever released."
British security firm Prevx has conceded that Microsoft security patches were not the cause of a Windows issue labeled the Black Screen of Death.
Cumulative Internet Explorer bulletin affects current Windows versions, including Windows 7.
IDG News Service - A group of companies is starting up an Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council in hopes of removing barriers to enterprise use of hosted cloud computing.
As more baby boomers near retirement, adjust to bifocals, and have their hips replaced, Microsoft predicts the Me Generation will be anything but geezer in its ongoing embrace of technolog... Continue reading "Microsoft Says Graying Boomers Will Never Surrender Their Gadgets!"
The company issued 74 Security Bulletins in 2009, compared to 78 in 2008 and 69 in 2007, excluding out-of-band updates.
Google's release of its Chrome OS to the open-source community intensifies the company's already heated rivalry with software king Microsoft.
Microsoft’s prices for licenses to their operating systems tend to be exorbitant, and while Microsoft attempts to offer a host of different configurations according to functionality and budget, it’s hard not to say that Windows pricing is a mess. Even if you know what functionality you need and what bundle includes that functionality — is [...]
Computerworld - Microsoft yanked its $150 Windows 7 Family Pack from the U.S. market last week, saying that the limited time offer had expired. The page dedicated to the Family Pack now reads: "Thank you for your interest in Windows 7. The Windows 7 Family Pack offer has ended."
I've been spending a lot of time thinking about the battle between Google and Microsoft and how it is largely counterproductive for both companies. Since I spent a lot of my life in competitive analysis, I thought it might be fun to set out a strategy of how Google could take out Microsoft and how Microsoft could take out Google, and consider whether either firm could carry it out.
Last week, Microsoft unveiled major updates to Bing Maps, including the inclusion finally of street-level photos, a la Google Maps Street View. On Bing Maps, they're called Streetside photos.
Phony Web site got good play from Yahoo, Bing, but not from Google
Microsoft names Joe Pagano Worldwide Managing Director for Banking and Capital Markets; company veteran most recently managed sales team for strategic Global Financial Services accounts.
Yahoo chief says company's biggest challenge is bringing offline ad dollars onto the Web.
Software maker claims vulnerability exposed by researchers unlikely to occur in "real world."
There's no rest for the weary, as Microsoft is planning to release six security bulletins for this coming Patch Tuesday. Redmond expects to close out the year with three "critical" and three "important" fixes in its proposed December security patch . As usual, remote code execution (RCE) exploits will dominate the risk considerations in this cycle.
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