Date: 03/20/08 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

It's been a while since Microsoft has shared information on "Stirling," the all-in-one security suite the company is assembling. Microsoft is planning to release a public beta of Stirling -- the suite of Forefront client, server and edge security products, wrapped in a unified management and reporting...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1284

Date: 03/20/08 (Security)    Keywords: software, technology, security, microsoft

Microsoft on Thursday acquired Komoku, which provides rootkit detection software, for an undisclosed sum. Komoku's technology will be added to Microsoft's enterprise-focused Forefront and Windows Live OneCare security software. Komoku counts the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense as customers and gives Microsoft's anti-malware...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=968

Date: 03/23/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: yahoo, microsoft, google

Brand Audience, 000 Time Per User 1. Google 114,573 1:29:15 2. Yahoo! 112,466 3:13:56 3. Microsoft 95,877 0:43:32 4. MSN/Windows Live 95,355 2:09:30 5. AOL Media Network 89,443 3:58:22 6. YouTube 70,076 0:47:40 ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14223

Date: 03/24/08 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft, google

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look: Hardy Heron Beta. Gallery: Installation. Screen shots: OS tour Mary Jo Foley: ‘Albany': New Microsoft ‘home office' in the works? Michael Krigsman: Is IT becoming extinct? Garett Rogers: New Google Mobile feature...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8283

Date: 03/24/08 (Security)    Keywords: database, microsoft

Microsoft has confirmed reports of vulnerability in Word that allows an attacker to exploit a system via the Microsoft Jet Database Engine, which shares data with Access, Visual Basic and third party applications. Microsoft in its advisory said the potential for attack is "very limited." Reports of...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=973

Date: 03/25/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft's idea is that you can have its system or be exiled to the woods, with its choices and risks. Especially the risk that your vendor of choice will go toes-up, leaving you like Little Red Riding Hood before the big, bad wolf.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/257803881/

Date: 03/25/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, asp, sql, microsoft

Microsoft and Jaspersoft are working together to ensure that Jasper’s business intelligence software suite runs well on the latest editions of Windows and SQL Server. At the Open Source Business Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Microsoft told ZDNet that the open source BI software will be optimized for Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 and [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/257942458/

Date: 03/26/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: xml, microsoft

Microsoft thinks it has the votes to get Office OpenXML (OOXML), the format of Microsoft Office, approved as an ISO standard. The key, it says, was a decision by the Czech Standards Institute to approve the format.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/258307284/

Date: 03/26/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft General Counsel and IP chief Brad Smith got a round of applause at the Open Source Business Conference Monday for showing respect to the open source community — but he faced some tough questioning from those in the bazaar. One attendee asked how Microsoft could collaborate with an industry that was described by Microsoft [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/258451699/

Date: 03/07/09 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

Microsoft owns FAT32, but it didn't appear to pursue its rights against companies that supported FAT32 in their Linux thumb drives and consumer electronics. Until the TomTom case. At which point it comes out that Microsoft had secret cross-licensing deals with all those other guys which violate the GPL.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/TCw_rW8Bu5E/

Date: 12/04/08 (C Sharp)    Keywords: web, microsoft, google

I have just created web service in VS2008. I then created a project to act as a client for this service and tried to import a Service Reference using VS2008. I am getting the following error:


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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Failed to add Service Reference 'ServiceReference1.Reference'.
Error:Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.FaultImportOptions' from assembly 'System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.

Please use Error List window to view the full error message.

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OK
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A Google search for FaultImportOptions brings up an MSDN page in Portugese, but nothing else. Browsing the System.ServiceModel assembly reveals no FaultImportOptions class or property.

Any ideas?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/99117.html

Date: 07/18/08 (C Sharp)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

Hello!
I use Managed Direct 3D for my graphic engine. But Microsoft will turn off support of this technology. Which technology you advice to me? XNA or something else?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/97171.html

Date: 03/10/09 (Data Management)    Keywords: sql, microsoft

After acknowledging a couple of weeks ago that it was changing direction with SQL Data Services SDS, Microsoft officials are filling in the gaps about exactly what will be changing when. by Mary Jo Foley

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2273

Date: 03/10/09 (Data Management)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft is readying new updates of some of its back-end data services of interest to developers, including an offline version of its "Astoria" ADO.Net Service. by Mary Jo Foley

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2268

Date: 03/09/09 (Data Management)    Keywords: database, microsoft

A comment by frequent contributor JesperFrimann last week caused me to take a closer look at licensing practices among major commercial database vendors other than Microsoft. All three of the big guys (Oracle, IBM, and Sybase) follow the same basic sales model: ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1525

Date: 02/26/09 (Data Management)    Keywords: sql, microsoft

Whether you call it a "mid-course correction" or a reset, Microsoft is rethinking its "SQL Server Services in the cloud" strategy. by Mary Jo Foley

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2162

Date: 06/18/08 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: web, microsoft

Ok, I had to run a System Restore on my computer to get rid of a bad update on the video drivers. The Video Card would keep shutting itself off within 2 minutes of booting up. After the system restore, which I only took it back a week, up until now, has seemed to be okay. The CD-RW and DVD-RW drives have been in the system for over a year. And up til now they've worked flawlessly.

But now, I cannot burn anything to either the CD-RW drive or the DVD-RW drive. I can read and listen to music just fine. I did do some diagnosing and found that for some reason, whenever I open or close either drive, the IMAPI System Files turn themselves off. I can click START to turn the service on, but as soon as I open that tray, the service turns itself off. I can turn it back on, but as soon as I close the tray drawer, it turns itself off. I can turn it back on after its shut, but the system just wont recognize that there is a cd in either tray. There is definitely a bug in the system someplace, I just need to find it. And the Recording option is not listed for either drive when I click on properties or device manager.

I have tried to download and reinstall new IMAPI drivers from the microsoft.com website, but that had no effect on it. Ive also tried to reinstall the drivers for the CD and the DVD drives, that didn't have any effect either.

I am completely at a loss of what to do next. Can anyone suggest any ideas?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/ms_windows/92753.html

Date: 03/06/09 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

After a couple of days of "no comments," Microsoft has acknowledged the findings of a pair of bloggers who discovered that starting with the next major test release of Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 will be able to be removed. by Mary Jo Foley

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2235

Date: 03/05/09 (Security)    Keywords: software, security, microsoft

Microsoft today outlined plans to ship three security bulletins for software vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system. One of the three bulletins will carry a "critical" rating, meaning that it will cover flaws that could be exploited to launch remote code execution attacks. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2794

Date: 08/30/08 (Software)    Keywords: microsoft

Hello, I'm wondering where I could find Microsoft's Powerpoint (any version) for free to download?
And probably some installing instructions? Thanks, much.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/software/80951.html