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Microsoft: Don’t hate the finder, hate the vulnerability
At the ToorCon security conference held in Seattle this past week, Microsoft announced a major shift in it’s online security model. They have publicly pledged not to sue hackers into oblivion should they find security flaws in their online services, assuming you hack and tell that is. Generally, researchers are free to hack away on [...]
Ballmer: Vista is ‘a Work in Progress’
As PC users clamor for Microsoft to continue to support Windows XP, company CEO Steve Ballmer called the Vista OS “a work in progress” at an annual Seattle event on Thursday. I guess most of us missed that fine print when we paid full price at the time of purchase.
Yahoo! to Microsoft: How cheap do you think we are?
Recent pen-pals Microsoft and Yahoo have had yet another exchange. As expected, the latest “Dear Steve” letter responds to Microsoft’s initial 3 week ultimatum - otherwise known as ‘take our deal or we’ll take it to your shareholders.’ It’s been rumored that the email exchanges before PR got ahold of them actually went something like [...]
Internal emails put NVIDIA platform on Vista in bad light
You may have heard of the recently launched "Vista Capable" lawsuit in which there is mounting evidence that Microsoft tweaked the minimum specifications of what constitutes a PC as Vista Capable, much to Intel’s delight. Judge Martha Pechman, who is overseeing the class-action, has ordered the release of over 150 pages of internal Microsoft [...]
Vista SP1 to hit Windows Update Tuesday
Beware the ides of March? Actually, beware March 18th too - the long awaited public debut of Vista Service Pack 1 is set to hit Windows Update. Computerworld has the details.
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