We've all been going nuts with anticipation over the mythical Apple tablet that is expected to appear next year. We have wondered about its design, and applications, and OS, and which carriers it will run on. The one question that nobody has dared to ask is, "What if someone else delivers and even cooler tablet?" Perish the thought, right?
Citing anonymous sources, Jim Dalrymple at The Loop has reported that Microsoft has contacted "a number of Apple's retail store managers" in an attempt to hire them away. The employees have been promised "significant raises," and some were even offered moving expenses. The strategy also allegedly has a recruitment element to it.
"Once hired, the ex-Apple employees are then contacting some of the top sales people in the Apple retail organization offering them positions at Microsoft retail," Dalrymple wrote. "They have also been offered more money than what they made at Apple."
Microsoft today demonstrated a new tool for its Bing search engine that will allow advertisers to measure the effectiveness of their ads with online users.
Speaking at the IAB MIXX Conference and Expo 2009 in New York, Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's Online Audience Business group, showed what he called a "user-level targeting" tool that allows Microsoft to see which search-based ads that appear in the Bing search engine are getting the most traffic and from where.
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) has issued a temporary "Fix It" option that serves as a workaround for a critical vulnerability in the Server Message Block version 2 protocol that could pave the way for remote hackers to infiltrate Windows Vista and Server 2008 systems to steal data.
While not quite a patch, Microsoft updated its security advisory by telling users to cut support for the SMBv2 protocol, accompanied by a link to the Microsoft "Fix It" package disabling the SMBv2 protocol and then stopping and starting the Server service.
We were asked about it, therefore we thought we'd get some answers and when we say 'some', in fact we mean all the answers.
It's one of those questions that raises it's ugly head a couple of times a year, everyone makes some type of grunting noise, no real conclusion is reached and it's forgotten about until the next bemused victim asks all over again.
With attack code that exploits a critical unpatched bug in Windows likely to go public soon, Microsoft wants users to run an automated tool that disables the vulnerable component.
The bug in SMB (Server Message Block) 2, a Microsoft-made network file- and print-sharing protocol that ships with Windows, affects Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and preview releases of Windows 7.
Aiming to crack down on a growing problem, Microsoft said it filed five lawsuits Thursday against parties it suspects of posting online advertisements laden with malicious code. Microsoft has tried to work with ad networks to thwart such "malvertising" in the past, but this is the first time it has gone to court.
Users have known it all along but a Microsoft executive has finally admitted that Vista was not all that it could have been.
In what has been the clearest condemnation yet of the company's most recent operating system, Charles Songhurst, Microsoft's general manager of corporate strategy, said that the product hadn't really delivered for Microsoft. "What people underestimate is the importance of good or bad products, And sometimes your products are good, sometimes the products are bad. And I think Vista was a less good product for Microsoft," he said.
Microsoft late last week said it won't patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs it quashed Sept. 8 in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The news adds Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and SP3 to the no-patch list that previously included only Windows 2000 Server SP4.
"We're talking about code that is 12 to 15 years old in its origin, so backporting that level of code is essentially not feasible," said security program manager Adrian Stone during Microsoft's monthly post-patch Webcast, referring to Windows 2000 and XP.
A recent study has concluded that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 is the best browser to use when it comes to getting the most out of your laptop battery.
It may not have even occurred to you that your choice of browser could could impact your laptop's battery performance. But these new findings suggest that in some cases using IE 8 could could extend your battery life by up to 40 minutes.
