federal appeals court today ordered Microsoft to stop selling its popular Word software in less than three weeks, rejecting the company’s appeal and confirming the ruling of a lower court. Microsoft will comply with the injunction, a company spokesman said today. "We are moving quickly to comply with the injunction, which takes effect on January 11, 2010," said Kevin Kutz, the director...
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Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized the terms of a broad search and advertising agreement intended to help them compete more effectively with Google. The companies announced the agreement, in which Microsofts Bing search engine would power Yahoo’s search results and Yahoo would provide premium search-advertising services for both companies, in July.
They had hoped to finalize the deal in late October...
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Computerworld – Microsoft today confirmed that exploit code published last week can compromise PCs running older versions of Internet Explorer (IE), but said its security team has not yet seen any in-the-wild attacks. The attack code, which was posted Friday to the Bugtraq security mailing list, affects both Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and the newer IE7, Microsoft acknowledged. "Microsoft...
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IDG News Service – Microsoft has discussed paying News Corp. to remove its news Web sites from Google’s search results and list them on its Bing search engine instead, The Financial Times reported Sunday on its Web site. Microsoft also approached other major online publishers about removing their sites from Google, the report said.
News Corp. initiated the discussions with Microsoft, the...
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A hacker has posted attack code that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.
The code was posted Friday to the Bugtraq mailing list by an unidentified hacker. According to security vendor Symantec, the code does not always work properly, but it could be used to install unauthorized software on a victim’s computer.
"Symantec...
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Hackers have figured out how to sidestep Windows 7′s activation process, continuing a long-running battle with Microsoft, which has blocked such tactics in the past.
According to an article published more than a week ago on My Digital Life, hackers have devised a pair of methods that circumvent the new operating system’s product activation, a key component of Microsoft’s antipiracy...
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Urges users to block ports until a patch is ready, but workaround cripples browsers
Microsoft late on Friday confirmed that an unpatched vulnerability exists in Windows 7, but downplayed the problem, saying most users would be protected from attack by blocking two ports at the firewall.
In a security advisory, Microsoft acknowledged that a bug in SMB (Server Message Block), a Microsoft-made network...
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Beta that Microsoft plans to unveil next week hits BitTorrent
Computerworld – Office 2010′s public beta has leaked to the Web, days ahead of its anticipated roll-out next week, searches of file-sharing sites showed today.
The 32- and 64-bit versions of the Office 2010 Beta have appeared on several peer-to-peer BitTorrent tracking sites, including Mininova.org, with the first one posted...
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