From the Do Microsoft Have Any Idea What They’re Doing? Dept comes another story about Microsoft products not quite gelling with reality. ZDNet Australia last week interviewed Microsoft Office product manager Dan Leach who said that Microsoft planned to halt development of Outlook Express, the email client that comes bundled with the browser Internet Explorer.… Read More »
Reports are starting to trickle out of trouble at t’Microsoft mill. One says it looks like there won’t be a new release of Windows for “quite a while”. A Service Pack (SP) 2 for Windows XP — a set of patches and updates to the software — is “running a year later than… Read More »
Blaster turned out to be less of one, at least in terms of the Internet storm it was supposed to whip up. Still, I’ve heard of plenty of infections. IDG reports that the attack on Microsoft Corp.’s main software update Web site did not materialize Saturday, despite infecting half a million PCs, as computers infected… Read More »
From the guys at Security Magazine, an update on the Blaster worm, or LovSan, as they call it: Malware writers have spawned multiple variants of the Lovsan worm, the most dangerous of which installs a remote-access Trojan on infected systems. LovSan “is similar in magnitude to Code Red and Nimda, but its ramifications are much… Read More »
Here’s an interesting download for ya: software from a consulting firm that scours your company’s documents for ‘biz-buzz’ and suggests alternatives. It’s called Bullfighter (get it?) from Deloitte Consulting and it’s a plug-in that attaches itself to Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. I read about it in a NYT/IHT column by Randall Rothenberg, who describes himself… Read More »