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McAfee on Tuesday confirmed that consumer versions of its leading software for securing PCs is vulnerable to a flaw that could leave users open to hackers. eEye discovered the vulnerability on July 19 and reported it to McAfee. The flaw means attackers could retrieve passwords and other sensitive pe...
Broadband networks for the home are fueling the growth of sales of wireless devices, and will continue to do so for the next five years. Research from the Boston-based IT consultancy, Strategy Analytics, indicates that homeowners worldwide are going to purchase nearly 950 million wireless home devi...
Microsoft is going to start charging users who download its Office 2007 Beta 2 version US$1.50, starting August 2. The application, which has been downloaded by some 3 million people over the last two months, has been available for free. Microsoft said it was surprised by the interest in beta 2 and ...
Microsoft believes it will be on target for the release of its long-awaited Vista operating system, but the company wants to ensure quality before sending it to the masses. "We will ship Windows Vista when the product is ready," Kevin Johnson, co-president of Microsoft's Platforms & Services Div...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced its intent to distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a "high-priority" update through Automatic Updates for Windows XP. The software giant's goal is to help its customers browse the Web in more secure environments. "To ensure users are prepared to upgrade, AU will notify ...
People eat, put on makeup, play with the stereo, and of course, talk on their mobile phones while driving. Why not add e-mail to the list? A Waterloo, Ontario company has done just that, and Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (IMS) says its iLane device -- "the world's first hands-free and eyes-free e-...
Microsoft on Wednesday released a set of guiding principles it drafted for itself that will allow computer manufacturers using Vista and any other future Microsoft operating system to remove Microsoft's MSN Search, Internet Explorer and Media Player as defaults and put competitive alternatives in th...
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it has acquired Winternals Software and plans to appoint the company's co-founder a technical fellow. Privately held Winternals provides systems recovery and data protection solutions to Windows-based enterprises and offers free software tools called Sysinternals. Th...
Microsoft announced it has filed 26 lawsuits against alleged dealers of illegal software. These suits are more than double the number of cases Microsoft has filed on any one day -- in fiscal year 2006 it filed 10 cases at one shot. The suits represent the launch of Microsoft's latest and, it says, ...
In response to concerns from corporate users, Microsoft on Friday pulled the plug on software that allowed users sharing Windows PCs to shield information from other users in a private folder. Private Folder 1.0 first appeared on Microsoft's Web site last week as a Windows add-on. Corporate bloggers...
This week, European Commission regulators fined Microsoft about US$356 million, adding to the $630.7 million the company has already been forced to pay. Noncompliance with a mandate to disclose technology documents is the official reason for the fine, yet the deadline for such compliance has not yet...
Consumers who love to chat will have more people to talk to now that Yahoo and Microsoft have bridged their instant messaging services. On Thursday, the companies began limited public beta testing of interoperability between Yahoo Messenger with Voice and Windows Live Messenger, an updated version o...
When it comes to software, there are two schools of thought about tackling a basket of tasks. You can try attacking each task separately with an individual application, or you can look for a Swiss Army knife software suite to mount a unified assault on them. If the all-in-one approach appeals to you...
Microsoft on Tuesday released seven patches, five classified as critical, for July's Patch Tuesday event. The seven patches fix at least 10 vulnerabilities in consumer and enterprise software. Security bulletin MS06-035 addresses a critical vulnerability in Windows Server 2003, as well as Windows XP...
Microsoft is moving out with the old and in with the new. As of Tuesday, the company has ended public support, including security updates, for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows Millennium Edition. However, Tuesday also marked Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Boston, where ...
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