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MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: Critical flaws in Windows, Office

Microsoft has announced plans to ship three security bulletins this month to cover at least four serious vulnerabilities in all supported versions of the Windows operating system. According to an advance notice from Redmond, one of the b [...]

Posted On : Mar, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft And Google Are At It Again

Microsoft and Google have been at loggerheads for quite some time now. And now this animosity has spread beyond search to the cloud computing space. Last week Google launched Cloud Connect and hit Microsoft right where it hurts &nda [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Why Nokia got into bed with Microsoft

There's a new battle in the mobile market, a "war of ecosystems", according to Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, who was forced to defend his company's unprecedented tie-up with arch enemy Microsoft. Elop - a former Microsoft pre [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft can fend off mobile, cloud competition

Duncan Jones, principal analyst of sourcing and vendor management at Forrester Research, noted that because of its long-term dominance over the PC market, Microsoft was unable to react quickly to "real competition" from cloud-b [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft CRM 2011 Facilitates Enhanced Collaboration With O...

The release of the new version of Microsoft CRM, Microsoft CRM 2011, due for release at the end of February takes steps to promote user adoption with a more intuitive solution that offers deep integration into the Microsoft Office Suite, [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

SAP, Microsoft Try Again With Duet Enterprise

SAP and Microsoft announced Tuesday what some observers see as a reboot of Duet, the strategy first formed by the companies in 2005 to tie SAP's ERP (enterprise resource planning) software with Microsoft Office.Tuesday's news cen [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Gets `Little Credit' for Gains Amid Windows Concer...

Microsoft Corp. shares failed to get a lift from better-than-predicted second-quarter sales and profit results yesterday after a shortfall in Windows revenue raised concerns about future demand for the operating system. Windows reve [...]

Posted On : Jan, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft steps up competition with dynamics CRM 2011

Microsoft announced a major new release of Dynamics CRM recently with the usual feature and function upgrades, but most of the hoopla surrounds a more globally available and aggressively priced Online version. Microsoft Dynamics CRM [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Office 2011: A Suite Well Suited for Macs

So, you received a new Mac for Christmas – you are probably going to want some sort of office suite for writing letters or papers, creating presentations and so on. There are a number of respectable choices out there, including App [...]

Posted On : Jan, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

More IT Grief: Office Exploit Broadly Released

Code that can exploit a Rich Text Format flaw in Microsoft Office has been published, according to a Microsoft announcement late last month. The good news is that IT pros who applied Microsoft November patch for this exploit have address [...]

Posted On : Jan, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Exploit for critical flaw in MS Office found in the wild

An exploit has been discovered in the wild that can successfully attack a critical vulnerability in the way Microsoft Office handles Rich Text Format data, allowing remote execution of code on a victim computer. Microsoft released a [...]

Posted On : Jan, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Reports Critical Office Flaw

Software giant Microsoft Corp. has recently discovered a critical flaw in its Microsoft Office suite of software and advised users to immediately apply its November-released patches.The flaw could be reportedly exploited by hackers to pl [...]

Posted On : Dec, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Microsoft planning a version of Windows for ARM architecture

Microsoft is planning a Windows version that will run on ARM chips. Bloomberg, the agency that broke this news, expects the announcement to be made in January, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The software would be sp [...]

Posted On : Dec, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Oracle's New Office App Suites Target Microsoft, Google

Oracle may be better known as a supplier of data center hardware and software products, but it isn't ceding the desktop to Microsoft and Google. This week Oracle unveiled the Web-based Oracle Cloud Office 1.0 and Oracle Open Office 3 [...]