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Microsoft launches Office 2010 Beta on MSDN, TechNet |
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18th November 2009 - 15:52 - by Arie
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 Expected to offer preview to the public later this week.
Microsoft posted the Office 2010 Beta to its developer and IT subscription sites today, another clue that it will soon offer the preview to the general public.
Both the MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) and TechNet sites now host the Office 2010 Beta in 32- and 64-bit editions, which can be downloaded by the developers and IT professionals who have subscriptions to those services.
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Switzerland takes Google to court |
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16th November 2009 - 11:15 - by Arie
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 Web search giant Google faces a court case in Switzerland because of privacy concerns over its Street View service.
The application allows a 360-degree view of any street-level location.
"Numerous faces and vehicle number plates are not made sufficiently unrecognisable," said data protection commissioner Hanspeter Thuer.
Google said it was disappointed by the move. The firm says it is sure that Street View is legal in Switzerland and will "vigorously contest" the case.
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AMD Unveils Two-Year Processor Road Map |
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16th November 2009 - 11:10 - by Arie
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 AMD has laid out its road map for processors through 2011, with an emphasis on a complete computing experience featuring stunning graphics and video.
AMD also is on track to deliver a new line of Fusion processors to lower power consumption. For next year, AMD will release multi-core processors for notebook graphics.
"We've got the opportunity at AMD to change the game, to redefine the way that people think about computer technology and, in particular, to redefine the way that people interact with computers going forward," said AMD CEO Dirk Meyer.
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Windows 7 Inspired By Mac OS X? Microsoft Says No Way. |
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13th November 2009 - 21:08 - by Arie
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 Did the designers of Windows 7 draw inspiration from Mac OS X?
According to a Microsoft employee, the answer is "yes." That executive told British tech-trade publication PCR that Windows 7 looked to Apple in modeling its end-user interface:
"One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that it's very graphical and easy to use. What we've tried to do with Windows 7--whether it's traditional format or in a touch format--is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics."
The time-stamp on that article is Nov. 11, 9:53am GMT. If you heard a brief rumbling beneath your feet roughly five minutes later, that was the sound of Redmond officially going DEFCON-1.
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Microsoft preps Office 2010 public beta |
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13th November 2009 - 21:05 - by Arie
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E-mail message to testers hints that the open beta of Office 2010 could launch as early as next week
Last month, CEO Steve Ballmer promised that his company would roll out a beta during November. Microsoft has said it will distribute millions of copies of the Office 2010 public beta.
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Microsoft probing Windows 7 zero-day hole |
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13th November 2009 - 21:02 - by Arie
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 Microsoft said on Wednesday it is looking into a report of a vulnerability in Windows 7 and Server 2008 Release 2 that could be used by an attacker to remotely crash the computer.
The company is investigating claims of a "possible denial-of-service vulnerability in Windows Server Message Block (SMB)," the Microsoft spokesperson said, adding that the company was unaware of any attacks trying to exploit the hole.
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Hackers will exploit Windows kernel bug |
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13th November 2009 - 20:45 - by Arie
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 Drive-by attacks against IE users will come soon, experts say
Hackers will quickly jump on one of the 15 vulnerabilities Microsoft patched Tuesday to build attack code that infects Internet Explorer users, security researchers agreed today.
The bug, which Microsoft patched as part of a record-tying security update for the month of November, is in the Windows kernel, the heart of the operating system. The kernel improperly parses EOT (Embedded OpenType) fonts, a compact form of fonts designed for use on Web pages that can also be used in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents.
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Enterprises like, don't love, Windows 7 |
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13th November 2009 - 20:43 - by Arie
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CIOs say they are in no rush to upgrade from XP
Consumers may appear to be snapping up Windows 7, but large companies won't, according to CIOs interviewed this week.
IT leaders who spoke to Computerworld at the Society for Information Management's SIMposium 09 conference this week in Seattle say their companies remain almost completely running Windows XP on the desktop.
Despite the eight years that have passed since XP's release, they expressed little urgency to upgrade to Windows 7.
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Firefox flaws account for 44% of all browser bugs |
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11th November 2009 - 11:54 - by Arie
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Apple's Safari takes second, with 35%, IE in third with 15%, says vulnerability tally
Firefox accounted for almost half of all browser vulnerabilities in the first six months of 2009, a Web security company claimed today.
According to California-based Cenzic, Mozilla's browser had the largest percentage of Web vulnerabilities over the six-month span, while Apple's Safari had the dubious distinction of coming in second. Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) was third, while Opera Software's flagship browser took fourth place.
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