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Watch what Google does, not what it says.

Didn’t [Dr.] Eric Schmidt say that Google was not going to create Google Office? Hmmm… The Wall Street Journal just posted this:
WSJ.com - Google Plans to Release Spreadsheet Application
Google Plans to Release
Spreadsheet Application
By KEVIN J. DELANEY
June 5, 2006 8:03 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. plans Tuesday to release a Web-based spreadsheet application, in a [...]

Blogging from Word 2007

Posted from Word 2007 using FILE -> PUBLISH -> BLOG.
Well, it worked! Word returns an error message saying that it failed, but the post is posted. I’m not sure if this is a good thing, but there it is.
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Dance to the masochism tango

After a bad experience with Office 2007 Beta 1 and Beta 1 TR, I’m jumping back into what could be a nice hot tub or a pot of boiling oil. I’ve installed Office 2007 Beta 2. The new UI for Word will take some getting used to. Outlook, where I spend most [...]

Thick as a brick

Setting security for the Internet Zone to High in Internet Explorer pretty much renders it completely useless, the internet equivalent of a brick.
Nonetheless, these are the instructions I distributed to our staff:
More websites are exploiting the latest Internet Explorer vulnerability. Even when there’s a patch for this one, there will be something else. If [...]

The IE flaw saga continues

Brian Krebs notes on Washingtonpost.com that there are 200 sites exploiting the createTextRange IE flaw. Microsoft recommends avoiding untrusted sites, but Krebs says you can’t trust that advice. Crackers have broken into normally trusted sites and installed traps that, through the flaw, install spyware and bots.
Essentially, you cannot trust ANY site when [...]

Ajax Office

Forget Google Office. This guy is going after Microsoft Office and already has a Word clone up on the web.
Michael Robertson writes:
What if there was alternative for Microsoft Word that would install and open in 6 seconds, read and write Microsoft Word .doc files and run on Macintosh, Microsoft Windows or Linux computers? [...]

New publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer

Yet another IE vulnerability has hit the streets.
Read the update at the Internet Storm Center.
Microsoft says
Our initial investigation has revealed that if you turn off Active Scripting, that will prevent the attack as this requires script. Customers who use supported versions of Outlook or Outlook Express aren’t at risk from the email vector since [...]

Windows Defender

Microsoft has released beta 2 of Windows Defender, the successor to Microsoft AntiSpyware (beta 1). It installed well on my machine, although I removed MS AntiSpyware first. Happily, neither the removal nor installation required a reboot.
Now, I’ve got a problem. Windows Defender will not update itself. It fails with an error 0×8024402c. Buzzing [...]

Inside the WMF Backdoor

Steve Gibson created a bit of a web firestorm when he accused Microsoft of deliberately implementing a backdoor into Windows through the WMF vulnerability. Mark Russinovich writes
“given a choice of believing there was malicious intent or poor design behind this implementation, I’ll pick poor design”.
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Inside the WMF Backdoor

Mark Russinovich writes
“given a choice of believing there was malicious intent or poor design behind this implementation, I?ll pick poor design”.
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