Microsoft has released five Security Bulletins warning of several vulnerabilities that put computers running Windows at risk of attack.
The flaws affect desktop as well as server installations of multiple Windows versions. However, none are rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. The Redmond, Washington, software maker deems the issues it reported on Tuesday "important," one notch lower on its severity rating scale.
Combating malaria has been one of the primary goals of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and its latest gift of $42.6 million will fund a nonprofit drug company's high-tech take on an ancient Chinese remedy.
Working with a biotechnology company, the San Francisco-based Institute for OneWorld Health will try to turn the genetic engineering efforts of Jay Keasling of the University of California, Berkley into an inexpensive and effective drug to fight malaria in the third world. An announcement was expected Monday.
A REPORT COMMISSIONED by Microsoft UK from research firm YouGov, has revealed that while 89 per cent of UK consumers believe ethics govern their buying decisions, half of the same sample own material and goods that they know are counterfeit.
And nearly a quarter of the same sample admit they own pirated software.
That, said Microsoft, displays a double standard by UK consumers on the ownership of ideas. While a large proportion buy Fair Trade coffee or organic food, their attitude towards software has something of the whited sepulchre about it.
Microsoft has set a date for a second Longhorn-themed Professional Developers Conference (PDC). The event will be held in September next year, almost two years after the company first detailed the Windows XP successor at the 2003 PDC.
Longhorn has undergone a lot of changes since that initial unveiling. Microsoft has sacrificed some key advances it had planned to make a 2006 ship date. And it now plans to offer updates for Windows XP and Server 2003 to support technologies previously reserved for Longhorn.
Microsoft Corp. has made available for download the first release candidate of a major security update to Windows Server 2003.
The 316MB download contains many of the changes that Windows XP Service Pack 2 brought to that operating system against buffer overflows and other common attacks, including specific support for "no execute" processors.
How has Microsoft's monthly patch release changed the patching habits of enterprises? Find out here.
Microsoft reiterated on Friday that companies still using Windows NT Server 4 going into 2005 will have to sign up for a custom contract to get support.
Microsoft is offering up to two years of custom support to companies still using the OS when Microsoft ceases its extended support for the program at the end of 2004.
Mozilla's Firefox browser continues to steal market share form Microsoft's Internet Explorer around the globe. According to a report released by a German Internet advertising firm, Firefox has grown to more than 5.5 percent, while the Internet Explorer drops below 90 percent for the first time in years.
Microsoft today began an anti-spam blitz by filing seven lawsuits against hackers who allegedly used PCs infected with Trojans to send sexually explicit spam email that violated the Can-Spam US anti-spam law.
"Sexually explicit materials and publications for sale in stores are required by law to be covered from view with a brown paper wrapper, and it is important that consumers are protected online in the same way," said Nancy Anderson, vice president and deputy general counsel at Microsoft.
MICROSOFT has issued an out-of-schedule critical patch for its Internet Explorer web browser, plugging a security hole that could allow a hacker to take control of a PC.
The flaw allows the takeover of a PC via Internet Explorer 6 using specifically designed web pages. A number of different versions of the Windows operating system, from Windows 98 to Windows XP, are affected by the issue, which Microsoft has rated at its highest "critical" risk level.
MICROSOFT RELEASED details of a report published by the London School of Economics (LSE) which said technology to monitor products is being used to watch individuals too.
The study, sponsored by Microsoft and called The Future Role of Trust in Work, said that supply chain technology, meant for monitoring stock and deliveries, creates a command and control management culture that leads managers to misuse technology by too closely scrutinising worker performance.
