Microsoft
The malware industry
I’ve posted before about how cybercrime has become an organized industry but here’s some more on the subject; it’s a Microsoft report entitled, “Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 7″. PC World comments:
Malware makers – the criminals responsible for viruses and worms – have become increasingly organized and sophisticated, according to a Microsoft security report that [...]
Microsoft updates MSN.com
Microsoft is giving a new look to its Web portal MSN.com. Computerworld reports:
Microsoft plans to start rolling out a redesigned MSN.com on Wednesday in the U.S., the first major update for the page in more than 10 years.
Frequent visitors to the site will immediately notice one major change: The new page has only [...]
Microsoft re-patching
Gregg Keizer reports at ComputerWorld:
Microsoft yesterday re-patched Internet Explorer, the third time it’s been forced to repair one of the updates from its largest-ever bug fix, which was delivered on Oct. 13.
Monday’s fix targeted MS09-054, the update that patched four vulnerabilities, all “critical,” in Internet Explorer (IE). According to Christopher Budd, a spokesman for the [...]
Is Windows 7 the last major release?
Windows 7 is currently the focus of attention and will likely dominate the PC for a few years. But what about the future? At PCMag, technology industry analyst Tim Bajarin speculates about what comes after Windows 7:
So, Windows 7 does, in fact, matter. But for how long? At the moment, we live in a client/server [...]
Microsoft patches patched
Some of the Microsoft security patches from the October patch Tuesday were buggy. Microsoft issued some fixes yesterday. So you may need to check Microsoft Update. Details at InfoWorld.
Is real time search a moneymaker?
Microsoft and Google have been falling all over themselves trying to one-up each other in searching Twitter and Facebook. Aside from the pleasure of elbowing a rival, is there any money to be made? Monday’s New York Times business section looked at this question. The gist is that no one is sure. Neither Microsoft nor [...]
Windows 8
Yes, I know. Windows 7 hasn’t even been released to general use yet (tomorrow’s the big day). Nonetheless, there is already talk about Windows 8. In fact, there are whole Web sites about Windows 8. We don’t actually know anything about Windows 8 but that doesn’t keep people from talking about it. For example, there [...]
Windows is too expensive
Microsoft’s profit margins on Windows are the envy of the world but can it keep up the very high premium prices that it charges? With the hardware of a powerful PC costing as little as a few hundred dollars, how can Microsoft justify charging almost as much for the operating system? It’s not that these [...]
Forecast for Microsoft
This coming week marks the big day (October 22) for Microsoft when Windows 7 becomes available to the general public. Technology professionals have already had the new Windows for quite a while but this will be the first time that you can walk into a store and see a PC with Windows 7. Naturally the [...]
Your 10 minutes are up, another dollar please
That may be the type of message you’ll be seeing as you use software in the future. Microsoft has applied for a patent on timed software. InternetNews reports:
Microsoft has applied for a patent on a software licensing technology that could be used to bill users for the time they spend computing, just as if they [...]
The scorecard for Windows patches
Tuesday’s big load of monthly Windows updates was but the latest in a six-year series. Microsoft initiated a monthly schedule in October, 2003. According to Computerworld, there have been 400 security bulletins and 745 different vulnerabilities. 230 of the bulletins were about issues labeled “critical” by Microsoft.