Web browser that thousands of compromised Web sites have been using to install malicious software.
Microsoft says the critical flaw is present in all versions of IE, from IE5 all the way up through IE8 Beta 2. In an
, the company estimated that about 0.2 percent of Windows users worldwide may have been exposed to Web sites containing exploits that try to attack this vulnerability.
While one in every 500 IE users may not sound like a large number, Read the rest of this entry »

Dec. 09, 2008
An alpha-stage "social" media center distribution is bringing Netflix video downloads to Linux desktops for the first time, says an industry blog. The Boxee software offers a unified gateway to a variety of social and media networking services, says Boxee.
Earlier this week,
took a brief look at the Linux-compatible Boxee distro, conjecturing that the new
versions of the company's Eee Box nettops might make a suitable home for Read the rest of this entry »

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November 03, 2008
According to an analyst's report, Cisco is expected to unveil a new service provider edge router on Nov. 11 that's likely
to succeed its aging 7600 series Ethernet platforms. IBM is suing one of its top executives, a server guru who is trying to
take a job with Apple, where he would be working closely Read the rest of this entry »

If you write software for the Mac, you must obey Apple's rules. Period. End of statement. If you write software for Windows, you have more lee-way, but Microsoft pretty much calls the shots. If you write software for Linux though you can pretty much do whatever you want, except, of course, you shouldn't. Because if you do re-invent the wheel every time you write for Linux, we end up with software that doesn't work or play well with other Linux software. Read the rest of this entry »

, though he didn't specify when:
CIO: Why has Microsoft developed Zune?
Ballmer: At the end of the day, one of the big trends is that all content is going digital. And if we don't have the software and services that are useful, helpful and valuable for the consumption of music and video, we are sort of not really a player.
Now, we built the Zune hardware with the Zune software - and what you'll see more and more over time is that the Zune software Read the rest of this entry »

October 6, 2008 (Computerworld)
last week revealed some details of a new operating system aimed at helping developers write Internet-based applications.
The operating system, known as Windows Cloud, will be formally unveiled within a month, Ballmer told an audience of IT managers at a Microsoft-sponsored developer conference in London.
Windows Cloud is a separate project from Windows 7, the operating system slated to succeed
, he noted.
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CTO Stephen Herrod drew a cheer at the VMworld conference Wednesday by announcing plans to bring the next version of VMware's VirtualCenter management software to Linux and the iPhone.
In a speech opening day two of the VMworld show in Las Vegas, Herrod also described improvements to VMware's core virtual machine technology that should allow businesses to run larger, more demanding applications on virtualized servers.
VirtualCenter Management Read the rest of this entry »