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Microsoft confirms Excel flaw; outlines defense

Microsoft confirms Excel flaw; outlines defenseMister Dignan , who cares ? Certainly not I .I steer clear from every product that company makes .You forgot an importantand largely overlooked work-around: Use Open Office to view and save the Excel file. OO 2.3 can open and save Excel files from Excel...

Tags: MICROSOFT JUST, Office 2003 SP3, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft confirms Excel flaw, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft confirms Excel, Microsoft Confirms, Microsoft Office 2007

Discussion threads 2008-01-16

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Office 2010 to hit networks and the web in style

The Office 2010 web applications throw online productivity into a new dimension by porting four of the most popular and most useful Office applications onto the web: Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. The online office-suite business - business, if you can call it that, since the main...

Tags: Web, Network, Web Application, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-14

News to know: IBM-Sun; Microsoft; SaaS; Green tech

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM's Sun deal setting: Talks reportedly near collapse NYT: I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems   Mary Jo Foley: New...

Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Health Care, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., Wireless, Palm OS, Wi-Fi, Vertical Industries, Software As A Service (SaaS), Benefits, Healthcare, Wireless And Mobility, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources

Blog posts 2009-04-06

News to know: Safari 4, HP, Gmail outage, Ballmer's bets, SaaS adoption

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Safari 4 coverage: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Safari 4 - This is one fast browser! Ryan Naraine: ...

Tags: Google Gmail, Software-as-a-service, Larry Dignan, Apple Safari, Hewlett-Packard Co., Steve Ballmer, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Internet

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Microsoft confirms 0-day in Excel, expands list of vulnerable systems

Microsoft confirms 0-day in Excel, expands list of vulnerable systemsLOLNice.o-day?I thought it was 0-day.RE: Microsoft confirms 0-day in Excel, expands list of vulnerable systemsI wonder will this affect Open Office, Apple Works or other MS Office compatible software.NopesIt's o as in "Oh shyte! Again!?" ]:)Actually, it's a font issueI thought...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft confirms 0-day, Microsoft Confirms, vulnerable system, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-24

Microsoft confirms 0-day in Excel, expands list of vulnerable systems

Microsoft has confirmed that the code execution vulnerability reported yesterday in Excel is real, and has expanded the list of vulnerable systems. Microsoft has stated that the code execution vulnerability discovered by Symantec, now known by CVE number 2009-0238, is legitimate. They have also expanded their...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-02-24

WARP speed for Windows 7

WARP speed for Windows 7Core i7 8-core???"8-core dual Core i7"WTF is that?All current Core i7's are quad-core with Hyperthreading. It runs 8 threads, which is NOT the same as an 8-core. The 4 cores run at full speed, but can balance 2 threads each, which can improve efficiency...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Integrated Graphics, GPU, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Quarts, Microsoft Windows, software renderer, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

News to know: People don't get the MacBook Air; Thinnest digital camera; Merger mania

Notable headlines: Cisco plugs CallManager vulnerability that rates a '10' Janice Chen: Think the MacBook Air is thin? Check out the thinnest 8-megapixel digital camera. Dan Farber: Salesforce adds $5 per login pricing option and new developer tools. Phil Wainewright:...

Tags: FCC, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Merger, Apple MacBook, Digital Camera, Microsoft Corp., Camera, Notebooks, Open Source, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-01-17

Microsoft confirms Excel flaw; outlines defense

The Microsoft Security Response Center has confirmed ongoing attacks against Excel and is recommending that users either run files through a tool that strips out exploit code or block Office 2003 and earlier formats except for those from trusted locations. In its advisory MSRC late Tuesday said:...

Tags: Attacker, Microsoft Security Response Center, Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Security, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-16

Apple delivers hefty patch haul; Addresses Leopard flaws and Safari

Apple delivers hefty patch haul; Addresses Leopard flaws and SafariEntourageThese patches couldn't have made Entourage any worse than it already is. ;) It was the world's worst email client going in.Nor mine...Sounds like you might have bigger problems. I applied the patch last night, fired up Word 2004 without difficulty...

Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Operating systems, Digital music, Apple Inc., Addresses Leopard, Addresses Leopard flaw, Apple Safari, flaw, patch management, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

News to know: AMD pulls benchmarks; Windows patches; Xbox's $1 billion glitch

Notable headlines:George Ou: AMD to remove deceptive Barcelona benchmarks on website. David Berlind: In search of...a benchmarking fix.Ryan Naraine: On deck: Critical Microsoft Office, Excel, Windows patches.News.com: Sprint breaks up with high-maintenance customers. See image right: Sprint's Dear John customer letter click to enlarge.Microsoft sings 'O Canada' amid immigration challenges....

Tags: Security, News to know, Microsoft, Google, General, AMD

Blog posts 2007-07-06

MS: "OpenDoc too slow!" IBM: "MS Open XML too heavy!"

MS: "OpenDoc too slow!" IBM: "MS Open XML too heavy!"ComplianceThe real "rubber hits the road" issue is compliance testing. With both camps positioning themselves to become Governmental purchasing requirements, they're going to eventually run into the issue of validation suites.A good example is [url=http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/]the W3C's CSS Validator.[/url]One problem...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), IBM Corp., OpenDoc, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source

Discussion threads 2006-05-25

Learning from past Web Office mistakes

One of the outcomes of my recent round-up of Web Office products was a plethora of email from vendors who are building them. Thanks for all those emails and I apologize if I haven't replied (there were a lot!), but I will look at all the products. Dave...

Tags: Web, Web Office, Anil

Blog posts 2006-03-06

Microsoft confirms supercomputing plans

Microsoft confirms supercomputing plansLOL.. Super Flaws? Super Viruses? Super Stooopid.I really can't see anyone who's serious about supercomputing using an OS from the king of FLAWS.Per CPU License?Can you imagine paying for 4096 copies of Win2003 Server???High Performance WindowsDo the words 'high performance' and 'Windows' belong in the same...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., supercomputing, operating system

Discussion threads 2004-06-23