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Microsoft Plugs a Record 26 Security Holes
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft today released ten patches to fix at least 26 separate security holes, including a whopping 16 flaws in Microsoft Office and its constituent apps. According to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog, this is the most number of patches ever released by Redmond outside of a Windows service pack. Also of note, six of today's updates apply to fully patched Windows XP systems, and two of the flaws are actually present in Windows Vista."
I am really annoyed by journalists who pose as experts in whatever they are reporting on.
This guy tries to explain to the average reader/non-geek that Microsoft
He should at least refer to it as a platform, even if the vast majority of the readership won't know the difference.
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No. They tried that. Corporate customers revolted because their IT teams couldn't keep up with patch testing/deployment. And as history has shown (MSBlaster), the worm-clock starts ticking once the patch is available to the general public (it is faster for exploiters to reverse engineer the patch to find the hole), meaning it isn't practical for IT departments to "hold" onto patches and deploy them on their own monthly cycle.
I don't think you do. Internet Explorer 3 was released on August 13, 1996. Windows NT 4.0, which shipped a year after Windows 95, came with IE 2.0 (which crashed on launch on a fresh install; something I thought was quite impressive. Fortunately, Windows Update didn't require IE back then, and so you could download a newer version through that).
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Yes, you can. It can be on any web server.
Now for the kicker:
If that URL happens to point to a sharepoint server, when you click "save" it will save it back to the site, update the document history, prompt you for any necessary meta-data, and (with 2007) kick off a workflow for (example here) document approval.
"I remember when Windows 95 came out, with its weak, obviously-an-afterthought "web browser" (IE 3.0)", ronkronk
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It wasn't an afterthought it was a renamed Spyglass browser which they subsequently 'gave away' with Windows so as they wouldn't have to pay royaltees. After failing to buyout Netscape and get an exclusive deal from NCSA they settled with Spyglass.
"It took them some time to get it right, but eventually IE took over", ronkronk
IE took over by billg strong arming the OEMs to take Netscape off the desktop. Can't you remember what the MS AOL court case was all about.
"AOL's March 12 and October 28, 1996 agreements with Microsoft also guaranteed that, for all practical purposes, Internet Explorer would be AOL's browser of choice"
"Compaq was the only one to fully commit itself to Microsoft's terms for distributing and promoting Internet Explorer to the exclusion of Navigator"
"now it's becoming more and more obvious that they're taking security every bit as seriously as they once took the Internet", ronkronk
Like as an after thought.
"within a few years, we're going to see some really damn secure stuff coming out of Microsoft", ronkronk
I've heard exactly the same kind of thing when NT came out.
"In the meantime, Firefox exploits are cropping up at a seemingly greater pace. This worries me. It looks like a repeat of 1997, when Netscape lost huge amounts of ground to IE by producing a product that wasn't as good as the competition.", ronkronk
Netcape was never inferior to IE. As this test proves. The MS stratagy at the time was to make it a jolting experience for the enduser. Why are you trolling slashdot with patently false pro-MS propaganda.
"We will bind the (Windows) shell to the Internet Explorer, so that running any other browser is a jolting experience"
Firefox running on a more secure OS as standard user are not as serious as bugs in IE running on WinVista. You see as MS embedded the browser directly into the OS so as it couldn't be removed.
Secondly Netscape lost ground because of backroom shenagenans by billg an Co. After threatening to withold technical information, they offered to carve up the market between them or else they would cut off Netscapes oxygen supply.
`The delay in turn forced Netscape to postpone the release of its Windows 95 browser until substantially after the release of Windows 95 (and Internet Explorer) in August 1995. As a result, Netscape was excluded from most of the holiday selling season.'
"Microsoft representative J. Allard had told Barksdale that the way in which the two companies concluded the meeting would determine whether Netscape received the RNA API immediately or in three months.'"
`After Netscape refused Microsoft's offer to divide the browser market, Microsoft embarked on a predatory campaign to eliminate the browser threat'
`In subsequent meetings in the Fall of 1995, Microsoft explained to Intel that its strategy would be to kill Netscape and control Internet standards'
`in exchange for steering clear of the Windows browser segment Netscape would be made a preferred Microsoft partner'
"I'll be telling clients to go with Microsoft products, because they're more secure than F/OSS. And I don't want to see that happen.", ronkronk
I'm really an Open Source advocate except for bla, bla, bla
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f2600/2613-1.htm
http://www.theregister.co.u
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