Microsoft pencils in seven bug fixes for next week
Microsoft will issue seven security updates next week for Windows, Office, Exchange and BizTalk, the company announced Thursday.
Stories by Gregg Keizer
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Gartner: Hack contests bad for business
A pair of Gartner analysts Tuesday denounced a recent hack challenge that uncovered a still-unpatched QuickTime bug, calling it "a risky endeavor" and urging sponsors to reconsider such public contests.
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Microsoft doc names Longhorn as 'Windows Server 2007'
Microsoft will tag its next server software, now codenamed Longhorn, with the prosaic "Windows Server 2007," according to a document on the company's site.
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Apple owns up to MacBook battery problems
Apple last Friday acknowledged that some batteries in its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks aren't up to snuff, but said that they posed no safety risk.
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Microsoft explains how the ANI bug got baked into Vista
In a postmortem of last month's Windows animated (.ANI) cursor vulnerability, one of Microsoft's security development gurus Friday spelled out how the bug sneaked into Vista.
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Hack challenge QuickTime bug not on the loose
Organizers of last week's MacBook Pro hack challenge Thursday disputed accounts that the QuickTime exploit that won the US$10,000 prize was nicked from a wireless network and is now in circulation.
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Hack contest's QuickTime bug puts all browsers at risk
The QuickTime vulnerability that first surfaced last Friday in a Mac hack challenge is "very serious" and can be exploited through any Java-enabled browser, including Internet Explorer 7 running on both Windows XP and Vista, the company that laid out the contest's US$10,000 prize said Wednesday.
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Microsoft: No patch yet for DNS Server bug
Microsoft's security team it is still working on a patch for a critical bug in the company's server software.
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Dell relents, offers Windows XP as consumer option
Dell on Thursday bowed to pressure from customers and dumped its Vista-only policy for consumer PCs by adding Windows XP as operating option on half-a-dozen machines.
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Single-victim spam attacks skyrocket
Micro-managed attacks that consist of one e-mail targeting one person are up more than 10 times over last year's levels, a message security company said Tuesday.
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Microsoft roots out Windows Home Server leak
Microsoft said Tuesday it had identified the person who had leaked the still-in-beta Windows Home Server to the Web. According to both the company and messages from the site where the beta was once posted, however, earlier reports that the leaker was a Microsoft MVP were incorrect.
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Microsoft taking beta requests for next Vista update
Microsoft Tuesday began taking beta-tester applications for the next update to Windows, an upgrade to the Windows Media Center functionality within Vista.
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Microsoft cutoff date for XP shorter than predecessors
Microsoft will phase out Windows XP as an installation option for brand-name computer makers faster than it has any other operating system, but an analyst Tuesday said it probably wasn't a decision made to pump up Vista revenues at XP's expense.
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Microsoft: Dangerous DNS server bug in Longhorn code
Microsoft's troubles with its newest operating systems continued Friday as it confirmed that an unpatched vulnerability in its current server software also exists in the still-beta code for Longhorn Server.
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Microsoft: Word 2007 crashes are a feature, not bug
The Word 2007 bugs pegged as security vulnerabilities by an Israeli researcher are nothing of the sort, Microsoft said Thursday. Instead, the application crashes reported as flaws are actually by design.
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