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Protect Microsoft-based workstations from virus outbreaks

System users can easily protect their Microsoft-based I/A Series workstations from software virus outbreaks using Network Associates’ McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7. This product scans incoming and outgoing files for software viruses on Microsoft-based workstations and servers, protecting the control system from plant disruptions caused by software virus outbreaks. VirusScan is supported on Microsoft Windows OS workstations, including Windows NT sp5, and Windows XP for I/A Series V6.4 and later, and on at least a GX1 450MHz workstation.

Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes

mjasay writes "Microsoft's most recent annual report suggests that the company is increasingly coming to grips with open source, yet also seems determined to perpetuate myths about open source that poorly serve it and its shareholders. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has suggested before that 'free software means no free soda' for Microsoft employees; but this is perhaps the first time that Microsoft has managed to enshrine its ignorance in a public document. In the annual report, Microsoft makes two primary false claims about open source: 1) Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights; and 2) Open source projects don't innovate and instead mimic Microsoft's products.

Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?

A week ago, we discussed Microsoft's contribution to the Apache Foundation. Now, Bruce Perens has written an analysis "exploring the new relationship of Microsoft and the Apache project, how it works as an anti-Linux move on Microsoft's part, and what some of the Open Sourcers are going to do about having Microsoft as a rather untrustworthy partner." In particular, he notes: "...Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on. If they have to live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction. Apache doesn't use the dreaded GPL and its enforced sharing of source-code. Instead, the Apache license is practically a no-strings gift, with a weak provision against patent lawsuits as its most relevant term. Microsoft can take Apache software and embrace and enhance, providing their own versions of the project's

Yahoo, sought by Microsoft, gets more search traffic

Yahoo, the Internet company fighting off advances from Microsoft, won a bigger share of U.S. Internet search queries last month, shrinking the gap with market leader Google. Yahoo had a 20.9 percent share in June, up from 20.6 percent in the previous month, according to Reston,Va.-based researcher ComScore. Mountain View-based Google's share dropped to 61.5 percent from 61.8 percent, while Microsoft took third place with 9.2 percent, compared with 8.5 percent in May. Overall, Americans conducted 11.5 billion searches on the Internet in June, a 7 percent increase from May, ComScore said. Both Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft and Google released results Thursday that trailed analysts' estimates. Yahoo plans to report earnings Tuesday.

Some Developers Leaving Google For Microsoft

recoiledsnake writes "We have heard about lots of talented developers jumping ship from Microsoft to Google, but is the trend beginning to turn? Dare Obasanjo (a Microsoft employee) writes about a few high-profile people picking Microsoft over Google — either making the jump directly, or choosing Microsoft after receiving offers at both. Sergey Solyanik is back to Microsoft and he primarily gripes about the culture and lack of career development at Google. He writes, 'Everything is pretty much run by [engineering] — PMs and testers are conspicuously absent from the process. Google as an organization is not geared — culturally — to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications.' Danny Thorpe, who was the key architect of Google Gears, is back at Microsoft for his second stint working on developer technologies rel

Open XML Format SDK

The 2007 Microsoft® Office system introduces a new file format that is based on XML called Open XML Formats. Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007 all use these formats as the default file format. Open XML formats are useful for developers because they are an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML. Microsoft provides a library for accessing these files as part of the WinFX technologies in the System.IO.Packaging namespace. The Open XML Format SDK is built on top of the System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents.

Microsoft, Novell Continue Unlikely Windows-Linux Partnership

In November 2006, Redmond, WA-based Microsoft and Waltham, MA-based Novell surprised the software world by announcing that Microsoft would market Novell’s version of the Linux operating system to its own customers, and that the two companies would set up an “Interoperability Lab� in Cambridge, MA. Nearly two years later, the partnership is still in place, and today the old rivals—Microsoft nearly wiped out Novell in the early 1990s—said that they’re extending it to the tune of $100 million.

Senior Microsoft developer dumps Redmond to embrace open source

Mike Gunderloy spent over a decade consulting for Microsoft, helping to build the Access and Excel versions of Microsoft Office 97 and 2000, as well as SQL Server, C#, and ASP.Net. A series of Microsoft moves, most particularly its "patent land-grab," has pushed Gunderloy away from Microsoft to the point that he's now "100 percent Microsoft-free" and has embraced a variety of open-source projects and programming languages.

YAHOO SPURNS JOINT MICROSOFT-ICAHN BID TO REVAMP FIRM, ACQUIRE SEARCH BUSINESS

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. said late on Saturday that it rejected a restructuring proposal from Microsoft Corp. and the investor Carl Icahn, and the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet-services giant called on Microsoft to bid for the whole company. Yahoo said the Microsoft-Icahn plan, which it said would turn Yahoo's search business over to the Redmond, Wash., software giant and the rest over to the New York investor, was presented as a take-it-or-leave it proposition. "This odd and opportunistic alliance of Microsoft and Carl Icahn has anything but the interests of Yahoo's stockholders in mind," Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock said in a statement. Yahoo said that while it rejected the restructuring, it offered two alternatives: "It repeated its offer to sell the entire company to Microsoft for at least" $33 a share, and it "offered to nego

Microsoft To Put Office Online as Equipt for Consumers

Microsoft will put its Microsoft Office suite online as Microsoft Equipt, joining Windows Live Mail, Messenger, OneCare and Photo Gallery. A one-year subscription for three home computers will cost $69.99. The Microsoft Equipt license bars business use and the Equipt suite does not include Outlook, which is popular among small businesses.

Microsoft Opens Windows 7 Blog

Microsoft wants a discussion with customers and partners about Windows 7, its next-generation operating system. A new Microsoft Windows blog has been opened, and Microsoft plans two Windows events. Microsoft says it intends to listen to what the world has to say about Windows 7. An analyst said innovative features will also be needed.

Microsoft starts to talk: Engineering Windows 7 blog is live (Updated)

Microsoft has thus far been very tight-lipped on Windows 7; everything that we know about Vista's successor—which is very, very little—has been carefully disclosed to us by Microsoft. The software giant has already been heavily criticized for not having any public channels of communication open. Even Microsoft's own partners have complained that the company isn't telling them much, and they're the ones that really have to know the details so they can align their products accordingly. Anyway, it seems that the stance over at Microsoft is changing, but very slowly: the Engineering Windows 7 blog (E7 for short) is now live.

Microsoft, In Search Of Itself

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Microsoft buys Powerset, gets foot in semantic search door

While Google and Yahoo focus on indexing Flash sites, Microsoft has other search plans up its sleeve. As the rumors have foretold, Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Powerset and plans to integrate the company's search and natural language features into Live Search. The San Francisco-based company's employees will remain in place, but will become part of Microsoft's Search Relevance team.

Microsoft Exec: Still Early in Search

SAN JOSE, CALIF. Speaking before hundreds of search marketing pros, Microsoft's Satya Nadella readily admitted Google is currently the gold standard in the market. Yet, like other Microsoft executives over the past two years, the svp of Microsoft's search, portal and advertising platform group vowed Microsoft would catch up.

Microsoft Says Google Is Years Behind on Privacy - Draws attention as IE8 enters new beta

Microsoft executive Peter Cullen says that Google might have some great products but that they are about ten years behind Microsoft in terms of protecting people’s privacy online. One cited example is the problem that Google has had with Street Views capturing photos of people that they don’t want online, a problem Google has dismissed by saying that anyone could take those same pictures and put them on the Internet. Cullen says that Microsoft has built privacy into its core design and that Google is going to need to do the same thing as it grows. In fact, Microsoft is trying to use its privacy tools against Google; the latest beta version of Internet Explorer 8 has a privacy mode that has the potential to keep even Google from collecting information to use in ad targeting.

Microsoft Cuts XBox Prices,Now Cheaper Than Rivals

imageMaybe it was the bad economy. Maybe it’s the back-to-school season or an attempt to generate more interest ahead of Christmas shopping period. In any case, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) hopes to see a sales boost now that its XBox console is now cheaper than rivals Nintendo Wii and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Playstation3, FT reports. Microsoft, which consistently ranks third in console sales behind its two rivals, is cutting prices in the U.S. and Japan. In the U.S., Microsoft’s 360 Arcade console, which doesn’t have a hard drive, is getting a 29 percent price cut—from $279.99 to $199.99. By comparison, the Wii sells for $249.99. Microsoft’s 60Gb hard drive model will now go for $299.99, which is being lowered by $50. That makes it $100 cheaper than a similar PlayStation3.

Explore the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework

Salute another player in the Microsoft's .NET jungle: the .NET Micro Framework, formerly known as SPOT (Smart Personal Objects Technology). So, spot it on your development map. Initially announced about a couple of years ago and now already in version 2.5 (with v3.0 "kimono" on its way), it is Microsoft's recipe for embedded device firmware development. It covers the # market niche where Microsoft Windows CE and the .NET Compact Framework have unacceptable overhead, that is, there are strict constraints for power, processor capabilities, and memory—Sensor Nodes, Aux displays, Health Monitoring, Remote Controls, and Robotics. Microsoft's answer to such environment is the .NET Micro Framework, where you can develop your applications in C#.

McAfee, Inc. Announces Support for Intel-Based Laptops and Mobile Internet Devices

security products to Intel-based laptops and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). McAfee® will provide integrated data encryption for laptops and integrated mobile content security for MIDs -- based on the Intel® Atom™ processor Z5XX series and Moblin-based software. Additionally, McAfee announced plans to integrate McAfee's security encryption with Intel's Anti-Theft Technology and Active Management Technology to protect the data on a laptop in the event that it is stolen and an unauthorized user tries to access it.

IBM, Linux and the Microsoft-Free PC

IconAfter 10 years of supporting Linux, IBM continues to challenge Microsoft on multiple fronts and aims to push Linux even further into the enterprise. While IBM has competed and partnered with Microsoft over the last two decades, the Microsoft-free PC effort is perhaps its most direct assault yet. "The idea of Microsoft-free personal computing has been in the air for a while," Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, told InternetNews.com. "We're just partnering with Linux distribution vendors and hardware vendors to make it happen."

Kerry Gerontianos Selected As Microsoft Digital Worldwide Partner Conference USA Spokesperson

New York, NY (PRWEB) July 5, 2008 -- Incremax, a New York City business-driven technology consultancy for Microsoft product solutions is pleased to participate with Microsoft, and other International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP) country leaders, to bring Microsoft partners and company executives together using social media. Kerry Gerontianos, President & CEO of Incremax and President-elect of the IAMCP for the USA, was chosen to be part of the kickoff of this new collaboration blog with a 60-minute webcast, led by IDC Senior Analyst Michael Fascette, on this partner panel sharing experiences on sustaining profitability by capitalizing on the latest technology trends and delivering innovative products and services in their respective countries and companies.

IE8 Breaking Microsoft's Web Standards Promise?

An anonymous reader points out a story in The Register by Opera Software CTO Hakon Lie which tells the story of how Microsoft's interoperability promise for IE8 seems to have been broken in less than six months. Quoting: "In March, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Internet Explorer 8 would: use its most standards compliant mode, IE8 Standards, as the default. Note the last word: default. Microsoft argued that, in light of their newly published interoperability principles, it was the right thing to do. This declaration heralded an about-face and was widely praised by the web standards community; people were stunned and delighted by Microsoft's promise. This week, the promise was broken."

McAfee, Inc. Announces Support for Intel-Based Laptops and Mobile Internet Devices

today announced its efforts to extend its security products to Intel-based laptops and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). McAfee(R) will provide integrated data encryption for laptops and integrated mobile content security for MIDs -- based on the Intel(R) Atom(TM) processor Z5XX series and Moblin-based software. Additionally, McAfee announced plans to integrate McAfee's security encryption with Intel's Anti-Theft Technology and Active Management Technology to protect the data on a laptop in the event that it is stolen and an unauthorized user tries to access it.

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