Microsoft: Patch now or face attacks
Microsoft ships patches and warns that “consistent exploit code could be easily crafted” to launch attacks via IE. The patches should be considered urgent. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2521&tag=nl.e589
What have we done?
If we are are only now discovering that Internet entrepreneurs need to get people to pay for things instead of just giving everything away for free, then we are in big trouble. http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=648&tag=nl.e539
Limited Potential Syndrome & The Seven Deadly Sins of Affiliate Marketing
By Geno Prussakov : You have launched an affiliate program, a number of affiliates have joined and you have started to see referrals to your website. However, at one point the sales volume gets frozen at one level, and no signs point to a brighter future. In other words, your affiliate program is no longer…
Microsoft’s worst nightmare: Win 7 less secure than Vista?
If Microsoft continues on its current path regarding one of Windows 7’s components — User Account Control — the company might find itself in the regrettable place where Windows 7 is less secure than Vista, say some testers. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1898&tag=nl.e539
Microsoft reveals Windows 7 line-up
Microsoft adds more news and SKUs about Windows 7. It will come in two primary flavors but there will be 5 or 6 versions – depending on how you look at it. Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly… http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1890&tag=nl.e589
XP, Vista, Windows 7: The brewing of a perfect storm
The OS transition promises to be especially uneasy for Windows shops this year. Which version should you standardize as your corporate desktop? And has your first taste of Windows 7 changed your deployment plans? http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1863&tag=nl.e539
Windows 7 UAC Has a Serious Hole
Microsoft may have gone too far in tweaking User Account Controls for Windows 7. Blogger Long Zheng recently demonstrated a serious hole in Win 7’s UAC, which could leave PCs wide-open to attacks. What’s more, Microsoft claims the hole is a feature and that they won’t fix it. http://www.insidetech.com/news/articles/3926-windows-7-uac-leaves-door-open-for-attacks?referral=IT_nlet_20090203
Why Microsoft’s Killer Instinct Must Return
Last week, the hearts of many Mac fans skipped a beat when the Mactopia web page on Microsoft’s web site disappeared for several hours. As it turned out, it was just a simple glitch, and in a knee-jerk response to blogger Ted Bishop’s inquiry about the health of the Mac Business Unit in general, Microsoft…
Microsoft: No more betas for Windows 7
Microsoft officials on January 30 reiterated that there will be no public Beta 2 of Windows 7 and the next milestone will be the Release Candidate (RC) test build of the operating system. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1858&tag=nl.e539
I am popular on Twitter. Here’s why this means nothing
Yesterday I received an unsolicited email from a woman who was pitching me a service — one totally irrelevant to my life. In her signature, in which she included what she considers her credentials, she had the statement, “More than 2,000 followers on Twitter.” I gasped, somewhat in horror. I laughed, full of humor. http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=407&tag=nl.e539