Microsoft’s plunge into the hosting arena isn’t sending shock waves through partners who welcome the visibility the move brings but say many corporate users will find the Exchange and SharePoint services fall short of the mark.Partners, however, say that Microsoft’s http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070808-microsoft-service-bundles-pricing.html?hpg1=bn structure, unveiled Tuesday, will cause some disruption, but users will quickly realize what they [...]

RETIRED: Microsoft July 2008 Advance Notification Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Time: The second Tuesday of every month, 10:00 a.m. PST. Like clockwork, Microsoft releases a group of security patches. And like clockwork, that release sets in motion a flurry of events from businesses, security vendors, the media and even hackers.Microsoft Patch Tuesday, as it is widely known, started in October of 2003 at the request [...]

Diane Greene’s ouster as CEO of VMware may have been sudden, but it was not a spur-of-the-moment thing; parent company EMC had been planning it for months, observers say.As increasing competition and the ready availability of free hypervisors (define) eroded VMware’s dominant position in the market, the company’s board of directors wanted the technology-driven company [...]

Microsoft is warning about a zero-day vulnerability in Word that is being leveraged to conduct targeted attacks.

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An examination of spam originating from the major free e-mail providers shows that like consumers, spammers prefer Google.In a three-week period from mid-June to this month, e-mail filtering firm Roaring Penguin said it saw an explosion of spam originating from Gmail, while Microsoft Hotmail and Yahoo Mail remained flat.The company attributes this meteoric rise in [...]

Microsoft DNS patch KB951748 incompatible with Zonealarm
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The official story is that Microsoft and Google both genuflected to government regulators today testifying that they want laws to protect the privacy of Web users from Internet advertisers. Yes, taken on face value, this means that Microsoft is asking for government regulation in its hot up-and-coming online ad business. The unofficial story, according to [...]

Embattled Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang accused Microsoft head Steve Ballmer of trying to destabilize the internet company Wednesday, as a sharp war of words intensified ahead of Yahoo’s decisive proxy shareholder vote on August 1.Yang’s comments in an interview with The Wall Street Journal came two days after Microsoft revealed that it would restart [...]

Microsoft is going to release Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 via its Automatic Update (AU) service on Thursday July 10, company officials confirmed this week.The client team has been vague about when it planned to push the latest version of XP to users. ?Early summer? and ?sometime soon? were favorite comebacks when officials were [...]

Microsoft released an IDC study claiming that partners stand to earn an additional $5.50 for every $1 Microsoft gains from eliminating pirated software.
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Cybercrooks are actively taking advantage of what appears to be a previously undisclosed security flaw in Microsoft Word, according to an advisory issued by Symantec.

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