July 27, 2009
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Last week, Microsoft essentially admitted that its plan to "sandbox" Office documents in Office 2010 is a last ditch defense against unstoppable Microsoft Office formats attacks. As John Pescatore, Gartner’s primary security analyst, told ComputerWorld reporter, Gregg Keizer, "Microsoft is … Continue reading
July 22, 2009
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By the time you read this, Windows 7 may have been RTM (released to manufacturing), so it’s time to take a first peek at what Windows 7 brings to the table, and what it doesn’t. First, let me shock the … Continue reading
July 20, 2009
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‘m really not sure why everyone is so surprised that Microsoft submitted the driver source code for four Microsoft Hyper-V drivers for inclusion in the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 license. You see, Microsoft and Novell have been working on … Continue reading
July 15, 2009
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Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, shocked attendees at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner conference in New Orleans yesterday when he announced that while Windows 7 is certainly interesting since it won’t ship until late this year it’s little more than vaporware. Ballmer continued, … Continue reading
July 10, 2009
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For most of this week, prominent Web sites in both South Korea and the United States have been being bombarded by DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. At times, these assaults have knocked out multiple major sites. North Korea has … Continue reading
July 9, 2009
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Mono, the open-source development environment based on Microsoft’s .NET, has really gotten people ticked off lately. The long and short of the argument is that Mono is a Trojan-horse that will introduce Microsoft poisoned patents into Linux. After, Richard M. … Continue reading