Date: 02/12/08 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Updated: Microsoft delivered 11 patches on Tuesday addressing 17 vulnerabilities. Six updates fix critical flaws and five address important vulnerabilities, but an already exploited Excel zero day was left unpatched. Microsoft's advisory last week noted 12 patches fixing 7 critical vulnerabilities. One critical Windows vulnerability was cut...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=877

Date: 02/13/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft has chosen Amalga as the name for its hospital IT system and will launch the product at HIMSS in Orlando later this month. A key selling point for Amalga will be its integration, spanning clinical, operational and financial functions.The company calls this kind of software a...

Source: http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=710

Date: 02/13/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: web, microsoft, google

Microsoft won't be turning Office 14 into a completely Web-ified productivity suite, a la Google Docs. But it's practically a given that Microsoft will add more online collaboration/sharing capabilities to the individual point products that will comprise the client-based Office 14. Microsoft execs are beginning to drop...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1178

Date: 02/14/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Information Week is reporting on a new Microsoft initiative designed to convince young people of the serious consequences associated with copyright infringement. Microsoft recently conducted a series of studies and found that kids were less likely to violate copyright law (whether for software or digital media) if they were...

Source: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1526

Date: 02/15/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft, google

If Microsoft really wants to beat Google, it must become Google. Or Googlicious. It must find some Googlosity. It must unleash its people to try things, and fail, and let the market determine which is which. Don't just empower someone. Empower a lot of someones. Empower everyone.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/235606035/

Date: 02/13/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: yahoo, microsoft, google

Yahoo! continued to lead the market in Japan with more than 42 mln visitors in December 2007. Google captured the second position with 32 mln visitors, followed by Microsoft with 30 mln visitors. The top 25 properties held relatively constant in their positions from November 2007, with small position gains...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13933

Date: 02/18/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

Microsoft isn't sitting around waiting for its Yahoo acquisition to get the nod. It is continuing to roll out new Windows Live and Live Search technologies and programs. Here are just a few of the Live-related announcements from the past few days that caught my eye: ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1195

Date: 02/19/08 (IT Management)    Keywords: microsoft

Once again, I had the opportunity to speak with the good folks of Digipede. As usual, I was impressed with their pragmatic approach and the fact that they're trying very hard to make grid computing/high performance computing concepts available to everyone by utlizing Microsoft's .NET architecture as a platform. This...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=345

Date: 02/19/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: microsoft

Notable headlines: Robin Harris: What your disk drive isn't telling you. Toshiba: We're done with HD DVD Report: Toshiba to announce HD DVD pullout Tuesday. Microsoft says end of HD DVD won't hurt Xbox 360 Mary Jo Foley:...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8036

Date: 02/19/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: technology, sql, microsoft

Microsoft is rolling out on February 19 a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of SQL Server 2008. The new build, which Microsoft is labeling as "feature-complete," will be available for download by any of the 100,000 testers who are registered to participate in the CTP...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1200

Date: 02/20/08 (Security)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft outlined what it does with incoming vulnerability research, how it designates flaws and playing the cloak-and-dagger game with hackers. In a Q&A with Ryan Naraine, Jonathan Ness, the lead software engineer on Microsoft's SWI Defense team, addressed a big emerging issue between the software giant and...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=892

Date: 02/20/08 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks Larry Dignan: HP: No tech slowdown here AT&T matches Verizon: Welcome to the wireless price wars Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1 prerequisite update ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8049

Date: 02/20/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft is sharing more details about its small- and mid-size servers due out later this year that will be built around Windows Server 2008. Both of these servers are part of the newly-christened Essential Server Solutions Family. At the low end (for users with 50 PCs or...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1203

Date: 02/20/08 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: microsoft

http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/hero/sfbio/

Why they didn't just throw Bill Gatus of Borg in there is beyond me.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1153231.html

Date: 02/24/08 (Security)    Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

Microsoft should acquire SAP instead of fooling around with Yahoo, according to Michael A. Cusumano, management professor at MIT. Does that deal make sense? Yes, but there are serious complications. In a New York Times article, Cusumano questions the idea of Microsoft acquiring Yahoo for good reason--the opportunity costs...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8072

Date: 02/25/08 (Computer Help)    Keywords: microsoft

Uh, I accidentally clicked on a nimp.org link.

I clicked it while I was using Firefox, so I'm wondering if anything bad has happened to my computer. I always get the latest updates from Microsoft, and my computer is acting normal, no way different. I think I clicked the link yesterday, but I can't remember.

What do you guys think?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/866172.html

Date: 02/25/08 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

In response to Microsoft's interoperability announcements last week, the EC, a force that has been pushing Microsoft down the "open" road for quite some time, had the following to say in response: The European Commission takes note of today's announcement by Microsoft of its intention to commit to...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1805

Date: 02/25/08 (Security)    Keywords: technology, asp, microsoft

You can't understand the technology deals without being fluent in EU regulator-speak. And you also can't grasp Microsoft's next move without pondering what the European Union will do. Luckily, the Wall Street Journal shed a little light on the EU's antitrust chief Neelie Kroes. Kroes is the one...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8082

Date: 02/27/08 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

When Neelie Kroes burst on the scene as EU Commissioner for Competition with a hefty swipe at Microsoft back in 2004, my thoughts at the time were something like: 'Out of touch, doesn't get the issues.' Four years on and her agenda is unequivocal. Drag Microsoft into line - whatever...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=324

Date: 02/27/08 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software, linux, microsoft

I normally wouldn't post something like this, but after a year of head scratching, my works IT desktop support department failing to find a solution and hours googling, I admit defeat.

When using a work computer, I am required to remote desktop into a server (windows server 2003) to log into the helpdesk software. Occasionally when using this, and switching back to the local PC (XP SP2), my mouse will lose the ability to click and drag objects in outlook and in windows itself (desktop items etc, not windows) The click and drag does work on desktop items on the remote computer. I am still able to click buttons and right click items.

I have tried:
reinstalling mouse drivers and a new mouse
Recently I got a new work computer (uipdated from SP1 to SP2). I didn't copy any settings over from the old one. New hardware, new profile. It kept happening.
I then deleted my profile from the remote PC. It keeps happening. I have brought in my own mouse from home and installed seperate drivers for it (logitech), it still happens, I have updated remote desktop to the latest version from microsoft.com. The only solution is to power off the PC, logging out and back in doesn't fix it. I have recently found however, that logging out of remote desktop, then waiting 5 clears it up, making it more annoying than critical. But this doesn't make me happy, as it's an itch that I can't leave alone till I fix it (that'd be the geek in me!). Every variable has been changed. It still happens. But not to anyone else.

This doesn't appear anywhere in microsofts help files. It doesn't happen to the other 3 people who I share this PC with. I am starting to think it knows I defected from windows to linux and am now a mac user. Anyone? Anything?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1155143.html