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Overnight, Microsoft issued a rare out-of-cycle patch for Windows systems that should be installed immediately. The vulnerability affects all versions of Windows and could have an impact similar to the 2003 Blaster Worm attack. If you're not set to auto-update, be sure to go out and grab the update. All of my machines do updates automatically, and the alert was
Color me confused, but I don't understand the new Microsoft commercials at all. You know the ones, they feature Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. I watched the first one, and reserved judgment. Now I've seen the second one, and, well, I still don't know what to say. I've never been a huge Jerry Seinfeld fan to begin with, but these
I may have missed this somewhere during my convalescence from surgery on Friday, but it looks like Microsoft, while not directly offering Windows XP for retail purchase after June 30th, has extended support for Windows XP through April, 2014. This is unprecedented in Microsoft's history, as most operating systems are sunsetted within ten years of their release. In this case,
The FTC gave the nod for Carl Icahn to purchase another 1.5 billion in shares of Yahoo. This would give him 59 million shares and 4.3 percent stake in the company. On July 3rd he will be ring leading the proxy battle in hopes for Microsoft to come back to the table with a buyout. In the meantime Yahoo stocks
Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates demonstrated some features of the next version of Windows, version 7, at the All things Digital conference. Some very cool looking features like multitouch that seem somewhat tuned to compete with some Apple features, not that there is anything intrinsically wrong with this. Seriously though, does anyone really trust any future features announcements from Microsoft
Steve Ballmer's presentation at the opening of Microsoft's new R&D center in Herzliya, Israel. Streaming Video
If you have Vista, or installed XP SP3, you might have seen some quirkiness out of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. To counter, Microsoft has released a Service Pack for this Virtual environment. The Download is for x86 and x64 and are availablehere. Release Notes are foundhere.