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[January 7, 2008, 10:05]
Web-based Office to run on Linux, iPhone
News In a blog posting on Monday on its Channel 10 site, a Microsoft blogger noted that, owing to support of Firefox and Safari, the forthcoming Office Web Applications will run on Linux and the iPhone. A Microsoft blog has said that the web-based...
[November 13, 2008, 8:37]
Microsoft to lift lid on hacker conference
News Microsoft is to publish the findings of its three day "Blue Hat 3" security conference, according to a blog posting by one of its organisers. Server coder in another BlueHat blog posting. Over the coming days we'll be posting our reflections on...
[March 17, 2006, 15:55]
Bogus celebrity LinkedIn profiles hide malware
News A security researcher has discovered fake profiles for celebrities on LinkedIn that have links to malicious code, according to a blog posting on Trend Micro's site. In its blog posting late on Monday, Trend Micro said it was continuing its...
[January 7, 2009, 13:23]
Microsoft puts datacentres on wheels
News In a blog posting on Tuesday, Microsoft detailed what the "generation four" datacentres will look like. In short, we are striving to bring Henry Ford's Model T factory to the datacentre," Microsoft's Mike Manos said in the blog posting.
[December 3, 2008, 10:44]
Windows 7 details to be revealed in October
News In a posting on the newly launched Windows 7 blog, Microsoft has announced that details on the forthcoming product will be made available at the Professional Developers Conference in October. This blog will provide context over the next 2+ months...
[August 15, 2008, 8:16]
Microsoft lines up BlackBerry challenge
News In a blog posting, Microsoft Senior Technology Specialist Harold Wong said the company will offer a community technology preview (CTP) of the Service Pack 2 update for Exchange 2003. The intended result of the upgrades will be a more streamlined...
[August 18, 2005, 9:45]
Firefox developer rebukes Google
News In a blog posting this week, Blake Ross argued that Google was wrong to include plugs for its Calendar, Blogger and Picasa at the top of search results for terms like 'calendar', 'blogging' or 'photo sharing'.
[December 29, 2006, 12:20]
Netscape 8 'breaks' IE
News Dave Massy, a senior programme manager for IE, warned users in a blog posting that after installing Netscape 8, IE will render XML files as a blank page, including XML files that have an XSLT transformation.
[May 26, 2005, 14:40]
Blog search engines try to block fakes
News Google's free Blogger service is a common source of splogs and spammers are automating the creation of blogs using this service, said Cuban in a blog posting. A number of blog software makers have agreed to support this attribute, according to a...
[August 18, 2005, 15:45]
Google blogger 'was fired'
News Other examples include a Delta Air Lines flight attendant who was fired after posting photos of herself in uniform on her blog; a Microsoft contractor who took some pictures of Apple G5 computers being unloaded onto the software company's campus...
[February 14, 2005, 9:05]
Obama Wikipedia page under possible security attack?
Blog Barack Obama’s web presence may have come under some pressure today as his Wikipedia page appeared to show signs of malfunction for a period between midday GMT and 12:45pm around the time of this blog posting.
[January 22, 2009, 11:52]
Public beta of IE7 is close
News Dean Hachomovitch, general manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team, said in a posting on Microsoft's IE blog this week that his team will post an updated pre-release build of IE7 for Windows XP publicly before the end of March 2006.
[December 8, 2005, 10:40]
IE7: Not just for XP users
News A blog posting by Dave Massy, a programme manager on the IE team, reveals: "We currently plan to make IE7 available for Windows XP SP2 and later. According to the official IE7 blog, the browser will be available on operating systems other than XP SP2.
[March 2, 2005, 11:25]
Legal blogger quits job
News Judge Roberts is lookin' super-hunky tonight, much younger than his 50 years," says one blog posting, which goes on to describe the Supreme Court judge as a "superhottie". For example, a Delta Air Lines flight attendant was fired after posting...
[January 3, 2006, 12:05]
Win tickets for England v. West Indies
Blog All you have to do to enter is make a posting or comment to the Vista Upgrade Blog, telling us about the new Microsoft OS in your workplace. To make a posting, hit the preview button and tick "Vista Upgrade Blog" in the list that appears under the...
[May 21, 2007, 14:27]
iTunes DRM-free backdoor reopened
News In a blog posting, Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen, who was previously responsible for releasing software used to copy DVDs, said he had been successful at reverse engineering the latest iTunes encryption.
[March 23, 2005, 9:35]
Microsoft blogger leaks search plans
News In a blog posting on Thursday, Windows Live program manager Akram Hussein demonstrated how the revamped Live Search handles searches for digital cameras, showing not just product details, but also reviews.
[September 24, 2007, 8:15]
Blue Security attack linked to blog crashes
News The DDoS traffic appears to have followed www.bluesecurity.com to its new home, overwhelming Six Apart's network and knocking its TypePad and LiveJournal services offline for nearly eight hours," said Netcraft analyst Rich Miller in a blog posting.
[May 4, 2006, 18:00]
Microsoft gives Live Search a Powerset boost
News In a blog posting, the company said it had completed three Powerset integration projects, giving: a set of direct answers using Freebase, improved captions for Wikipedia results, and new related searches using the Factz engine.
[September 18, 2008, 9:38]
