MICROSOFT NEWS
Toshiba taking pre-orders for new Windows 8 lineup
Submitted Thursday, October 18, 2012 @ 03:09 PMpcworld.com — Toshiba has introduced a new line of computers that, in keeping with Windows 8's emphasis on touch, offers an array of products with displays that can be poked and pinched. See the complete story here.
Microsoft settles botnet case against Chinese site
Submitted Wednesday, October 03, 2012 @ 12:03 PMnews.cnet.com — Microsoft reached a settlement in its legal case against a Web site that has been linked to malicious activity, with the Chinese company agreeing to block malware tied to its domain. See the complete story here.
Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan
Submitted Saturday, September 29, 2012 @ 07:01 AMbbc.com — Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson has become the latest developer to attack Microsoft's Windows 8 games strategy. He claimed that the software firm risked ruining its gaming ecosystem. See the complete story here.
Internet Explorer Blocks More Malware Than Firefox, Chrome, Safari
Submitted Saturday, September 29, 2012 @ 06:56 AMdarkreading.com — It hasn't been the best month for Internet Explorer given the recent zero-day attack, but the Microsoft browser got some good news today with a new test that shows it's by far better at stopping malware than Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari. See the complete story here.
Microsoft releases fix for IE bug
Submitted Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 08:13 AMbbc.com — Microsoft has released a temporary software fix for a bug in its Internet Explorer web browser. See the complete story here.
Microsoft Intercepts 'Nitol' Botnet And 70,000 Malicious Domains
Submitted Monday, September 17, 2012 @ 11:51 AMdarkreading.com — Microsoft has sinkholed yet another botnet: This time, it's one out of China that also spread via counterfeit software secretly embedded with the malware. See the complete story here.
Finally! Windows XP no longer most popular desktop system
Submitted Tuesday, September 04, 2012 @ 10:54 AMcnn.com — Windows 7 is now the world's most popular desktop operating system, according to the August report from Net Applications. See the complete story here.
Tim Cook Completes First Year as Apple CEO
Submitted Sunday, August 26, 2012 @ 07:24 AMpcworld.com — On August 24 2011, Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs resigned. One year later and Apple is going from strength to strength, with its share price closing last night at $663.22, compared to $372.12 a year ago, and the news last week that Apple had beat Microsoft to become the most valuable company in history with a market cap of $623.5 billion on 20 August. See the complete story here.
Phishing Attack Targets Users With Fake BlackBerry ID Email
Submitted Sunday, August 26, 2012 @ 07:23 AMpcworld.com — Security vendors say they've spotted phishing attacks trying to fool BlackBerry users into opening email on their Windows machines that launches malware for taking over the system. See the complete story here.
Microsoft unveils a boxy new Windows-inspired logo
Submitted Thursday, August 23, 2012 @ 11:32 AMarstechnica.com — Microsoft is changing its corporate logo for the first time in 25 years. As the Metro-ification of the company continues, Microsoft has revealed a new logo that reflects its new approach to visual design. See the complete story here.
Microsoft to Yank XP in 2 Years
Submitted Monday, April 23, 2012 @ 01:58 PMpcworld.com — Microsoft has kicked off what it calls a "two-year countdown" to the death of Windows XP and the Office 2003 productivity suite. See the complete story here.
Facebook will buy 650 AOL patents from Microsoft
Submitted Monday, April 23, 2012 @ 01:44 PMarstechnica.com — Facebook has struck a deal with Microsoft to obtain most of the patents Microsoft is acquiring from AOL. See the complete story here.
Microsoft Takes On Dropbox With SkyDrive For Windows, Mac and iOS
Submitted Monday, April 23, 2012 @ 01:43 PMtechcrunch.com — SkyDrive, Microsoft’s online storage service, is one of the core elements of the company’s cloud strategy. Today, Microsoft is taking the wraps off a number of new SkyDrive apps, including a Dropbox-like desktop integration for Windows and Mac (OS X Lion only). With this, SkyDrive will function like any other folder on your machine and any file you save to it will be automatically uploaded to the cloud and synced to your other computers. For current Dropbox users, this is obviously nothing new and it’s taken Microsoft quite a while to finally offer this feature. With this update, though, Microsoft is also reducing the amount of free storage it is offering new users from 25GB to just 7GB. See the complete story here.
AOL sells 800 patents to Microsoft for $1 billion
Submitted Friday, April 13, 2012 @ 02:43 AMnetworkworld.com — Marking the latest escalation in the technology industry's intellectual-property arms race, Microsoft is paying AOL a shade over $1 billion for 800 patents, the cream of which AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has described as "beachfront property in East Hampton.". See the complete story here.
California Man Charged With Trafficking Counterfeit Computer Software
Submitted Friday, April 13, 2012 @ 02:29 AMclaimsjournal.com — A Lakewood, Calif., man made his initial appearance in federal court Monday following his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents for importing more than 1,000 counterfeit Microsoft Office CD-ROMs and selling them to unsuspecting customers over the Internet. See the complete story here.
Security updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat
Submitted Friday, April 13, 2012 @ 02:28 AMadobe.com — Adobe released security updates for Adobe Reader X (10.1.2) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe Reader 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for Linux, and Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.2) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. These updates address vulnerabilities in the software that could cause the application to crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. See the complete story here.
Microsoft Is Blocking Pirate Bay Links in Instant Messages
Submitted Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 06:21 AMgizmodo.com — The Pirate Bay goes to great lengths to keep itself widely available , but here's something it can't stop: Microsoft is now blocking links to the site in instant messages across all its systems. See the complete story here.
How Linus Torvalds Helped Bust a Microsoft Patent
Submitted Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 06:04 AMwired.com — Linus Torvalds just can’t help but be a thorn in Microsoft’s side. First, he created an open source project that completely upset Microsoft’s business model. And now, he has helped shoot down an important Microsoft patent in Redmond’s crusade to wring licensing dollars out of Google Android and other versions of Linux. See the complete story here.
Microsoft moves to disable Zeus botnet
Submitted Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 05:59 AMbbc.co.uk — A global operation has been undertaken to disable a number of botnets believed to be responsible for the theft of millions of pounds, Microsoft has said. See the complete story here.
Microsoft to Launch Windows 8 in October, Report Says
Submitted Tuesday, March 20, 2012 @ 12:50 PMpcworld.com — Microsoft will wrap up Windows 8 this summer, according to a report by Bloomberg on Monday. See the complete story here.