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Microsoft sets Office 15 public beta for summer 2012

Dying Jobs kept letter from Gates at his bedside | DMARC anti-phishing effort raises question about typo scammers

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Microsoft sets Office 15 public beta for summer 2012
Microsoft announced it has kicked off a "technical preview" of the next version of its money-making Office suite and promised a public beta will ship this summer. Read More


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Dying Jobs kept letter from Gates at his bedside
Shortly before Steve Jobs died in October, he received a letter from longtime business adversary Bill Gates that moved him so much that he kept it by his bedside, according to the Apple founder's widow, as relayed by Gates to a British interviewer. Read More

DMARC anti-phishing effort raises question about typo scammers
There's essentially nothing but goodness in this latest anti-phishing effort -- called DMARC -- by the likes of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Paypal and Bank of America. The idea is to increase public confidence in email received from household-name domains and others by preventing spoofed email from reaching customers at all. Read More

Accused Kelihos botmaster proclaims innocence
Andrey Sabelnikov, the Russian programmer accused by Microsoft of creating and operating the Kelihos spam botnet said he's innocent. Read More


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Microsoft Kinect motion-sensing technology coming to laptops, sources say
Microsoft is working on implanting its Kinect technology into laptops, so you may soon be able to control programs with the wave of your hand. Read More

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 app fights malaria
Microsoft has awarded an Imagine Cup Grant to a team that developed a custom Windows Phone 7 and application that can diagnose malaria then upload the data to cloud servers that map the data to help track outbreaks. Read More

Microsoft Imagine Cup grants awarded to four teams from around the globe
When discussing Microsoft, we tend to focus on new product developments, financials, or forward-looking company strategies, but an entity with the size and influence of Microsoft tends to have a much farther reach than just consumable goods. Microsoft's Imagine Cup is a perfect example. Read More


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Apple breaks Microsoft's 'lock' on enterprise workers, argues analyst
The iPhone may have opened the door for Apple in the enterprise, but it was the one-two punch of the iPad and revamped MacBook Air in 2010 that really did the trick, an analyst said today. Read More

Microsoft partner: Office 365 app dev model to change, expand
External developers will be able to build much more sophisticated applications and tools for Office 365 once Microsoft releases the next upgrade of that cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite, according to a Microsoft partner. Read More

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing
Can industry heavyweights Google, PayPal, Microsoft and AOL -- along with 11 others in high-tech such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the financial world's Bank of America and Fidelity Investments -- succeed in stopping phishing attacks right in their tracks? In uniting behind an effort called DMARC.org unveiled today, the group says it can through policy-based steps filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing. Read More

Drive-by-download attack exploits critical vulnerability in Windows Media Player
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have come across a Web-based attack that exploits a known vulnerability in Windows Media Player. Read More



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