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Wednesday, April 30, 2003
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Microsoft has work to do to make its own server apps run on Windows Server 2003. Sounds like changes to IIS may be breaking some of them. [Microsoft Watch]
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Monday, April 28, 2003
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The Office of Fair Trading last week began a formal investigation into Microsoft's alleged abuse of its dominant position in the UK's education market. Following industry complaints, the OFT is to examine Microsoft's Schools Agreement for alleged violation if section 26 of the 1998 Competition Act.
"The OFT has reasonable grounds for suspecting that Microsoft has abused a dominant position through the introduction of its School Agreement licensing option," the government body writes to parties to the complaint. [The Register]
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Saturday, April 26, 2003
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No XML please, we're arbitary: in the future, you may be faced with two flavors of nonsense. XML Word documents that have been mangled by Microsoft's XML-creation tools, and XML Word documents that have been mangled by users who add their own non-standard entities. [The Register]
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Thursday, April 24, 2003
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Two new product security patches from Microsoft target a number of critical security flaws in the Outlook Express e-mail application and Internet Explorer Web browser.
The bulletins were released Wednesday by the Redmond, Washington, software maker and describe a variety of security flaws that could give remote attackers access to data stored on machines running the vulnerable applications. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Users say that Windows XP can take up to 10 seconds to start an application after a patch Microsoft released last week is installed. [Computerworld Security News]
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Friday, April 18, 2003
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The source of the Office 2000 SR-1 Registration Wizard bug striking corporate PC users around the world appears to have been identified as glitch in code incorporated in the software to prevent requests for product registration after 15 April 2003.
Instead, the bug displays the Registration Wizard, forcing users to continually re-register their product, or dismiss the dialog by clicking its Register Later button. [The Register]
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A software slipup in Microsoft's latest update to its Office suite results in the application repeatedly asking some customers to register the program. [CNET News.com]
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Thursday, April 17, 2003
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Trustworthy Computing, eat your heart out! As of the 2003-04-14 update, people are reporting that Office 2000 SR1a is now asking to be "registered" again. And again, and again. [Slashdot]
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Just three weeks before Microsoft Corp. publicly details plans to create a secure operating mode for Windows PCs, two top cryptographers have raised concerns about Microsoft's approach.
Whitfield Diffie, a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, said an integrated security scheme for computers is inevitable, but the Microsoft approach is flawed because it fails to give users control over their security keys. Ronald Rivest, an MIT professor and founder of RSA Security, called for a broad public debate about the Microsoft move.
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Monday, April 14, 2003
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Unfortunately, it seems that Microsoft's recent campaign to promote Office 2003 based on its XML support may be a bit misleading. Only the Enterprise and Professional releases will have this support -- not Standard. Microsoft will still be leveraging file format compatibility for at least another Office release. [Slashdot]
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Governments and multinational companies should take note of Microsoft Corp.'s willingness to bend on prices to keep key accounts for its Windows operating system from wandering into the open-source Linux camp.
The German Interior Ministry has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft to receive favorable conditions for both buying and leasing the U.S. company's software products, the ministry said Thursday in a statement. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Thursday, April 10, 2003
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Microsoft Licensing 6.0 requires a company to pay up on software maintenance when the computers that are covered under the license are sold off. Here's the kicker though: MS is no longer obligated to provide maintenance even though the contract is paid up! [Slashdot]
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Microsoft warns of three flaws affecting its software, the most serious of which would allow an attacker to gain full control of a PC using Java applets. [CNET News.com]
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Microsoft warned users on Wednesday about two new security vulnerabilities affecting its Microsoft Virtual Machine, Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 and Microsoft ISA Server 2000 products.
The Microsoft Virtual Machine (VM) contains a critical vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to gain control of affected machines, according to security bulletin MS03-011. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Thursday, April 3, 2003
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In its ongoing quest to expand markets, Microsoft says it will compete with Google by developing a better search engine. The company hasn't divulged any specific plans, but it's doubtful anyone will start using 'Microsoft' as a verb. [Wired News]
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Wednesday, April 2, 2003
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The decision has called into question an earlier promise to continue supporting the operating system through the end of 2004 and raised concern from its customers. [Computerworld Security News]
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Three-fourths of computer software security experts at major companies surveyed by Forrester Research Inc. do not think Microsoft Corp.'s products are secure, the technology research company said on Monday. [via Privacy Digest]
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