Microsoft to open Apple-like retail shops

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Our sources close to Microsoft have confirmed that the company wants to reach out for the retail market presence. Microsoft wants to open and create many retail shops dedicated exclusive to Microsoft and its products. This is something that Apple did with its many Apple retail stores around the world. Microsoft ...

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Bot breaks Hotmail’s CAPTCHA in 6 seconds

Monday, April 14th, 2008

A new bot can crack defenses erected by Microsoft to keep spammers from creating large numbers of accounts on its Live Hotmail service within seconds, a security researcher said Friday. Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense, said the bot broke Live Hotmail's CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test ...

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Their Passion Is Windows XP

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Microsoft Corp.'s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software maker. But you'd never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating system. Unless it's someone running Windows XP, a ...

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Microsoft Releases 14,000 Pages Of Trade Secrets

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Microsoft continued to release formerly closely-held application protocol documentation Tuesday, posting 14,000 pages of information for Microsoft Office 2007, SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 at MSDN, a Web site for developers. The protocol information released includes protocols that allow Exchange Server to communicate with Outlook and those used by Office ...

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Before Patch Tuesday, There Were Malware

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Recycling an old social engineering technique and using two different attack methods, a new spam run emerges as a threat to Web users before Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. And not because it exploits soon-to-be named vulnerabilities. What this spamming operation takes advantage of is the anticipation itself for the release of patches ...

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