A woman who had been responsible for managing Microsoft's Internet domain names has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for defrauding her employer out of £500,000 in fake registration fees.
Carolyn Gudmundson, 46, formerly a programme manager at Microsoft's MSN division, pleaded guilty in January to charges that she used her position within the company to run a number of scams between 2000 and 2004.
Microsoft is in discussions with Time Warner over how to combine Microsoft and AOL's online groups, The Wall Street Journal has claimed.
A Thursday article in the newspaper in the US claimed there had been a meeting between the two companies in Seattle on Wednesday in the US. According to the newspaper's sources, Microsoft and Time Warner have been in "casual talks" for several months.
It takes less than five minutes for hackers to find and compromise an unpatched Windows PC after it's connected to the Internet, a security researcher said today.
The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC) currently estimates the "survival" time of an Internet-connected computer running Windows at around four minutes if it's not equipped with the latest Microsoft Corp. security patches, said Lorna Hutcheson, a researcher and analyst, in a post to the ISC blog.
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s software update service is more reliable than those offered by Apple and Linux-distributor Ubuntu, a Web monitoring firm said Friday.
In the second quarter of this year, Windows Update was up 100% of the time, Pingdom, which monitors uptime and performance of Web sites and servers, said in its blog. Apple's Software Update had a "respectable" 99.9% uptime, and Ubuntu fared much worse at 98.64%.
Microsoft's plunge into the hosting arena isn't sending shock waves through partners who welcome the visibility the move brings but say many corporate users will find the Exchange and SharePoint services fall short of the mark.
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Time: The second Tuesday of every month, 10:00 a.m. PST. Like clockwork, Microsoft releases a group of security patches. And like clockwork, that release sets in motion a flurry of events from businesses, security vendors, the media and even hackers.
Microsoft is going to release Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 via its Automatic Update (AU) service on Thursday July 10, company officials confirmed this week.
The client team has been vague about when it planned to push the latest version of XP to users. “Early summer” and “sometime soon” were favorite comebacks when officials were asked for an AU timeframe for SP3.
Microsoft Tuesday patched nine vulnerabilities in Windows, Exchange, SQL Server and the company's Domain Name System (DNS) server and client software.
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All nine flaws were rated "important" by Microsoft, the second-highest threat rating in the company's four-step scoring system.
Microsoft set the stage for a full-blown battle to overthrow Yahoo's board of directors yesterday when it declared it was interested in reopening talks to buy all or part of the internet company - but only if a new board was appointed first.
The intervention, less than a month before Yahoo's annual meeting, gives backing to the flagging efforts of activist investor Carl Icahn to unseat Jerry Yang, Yahoo's chief executive, and the rest of the board that failed to reach agreement on Microsoft's earlier takeover offer.
