Li Gong, one of Microsoft’s top executives in China, is leaving the software maker, CNET News.com has learned. Gong told News.com that he would be leaving Microsoft in two weeks and that he planned to "go home." Outside of saying he would return to Beijing, he declined to elaborate on what his plans are.

Selteco announced the release of the new version of Alligator Flash Designer 7 for Windows–an easy-to-use, professional-quality Flash creation software at an affordable price. Alligator Flash Designer is similar to PowerPoint and it’s a perfect choice for those who find other Flash makers too difficult. You can start with one of the wizards to create a photo album, a slide show with transition effects, a Web site intro or a multi page presentation. The product also comes with 4 Web site templates. Users can add images, texts and shapes, apply more than 130 predefined animation effects like Fade, Zoom, and Rotate. The built-in preview browser displays the movie exactly as it will appear on the Web.

Spam emails are estimated to cost anywhere between US$10 to $87 billion per year in direct costs and lost productivity. What’s more, 90% of computer viruses are spread by email attachments. Spam has become so insidious that every company has to consider the cost and means of reducing its impact. Sometimes it’s as simple as implementing a basic spam filter and applying best practices. This article provides ten tips to help eliminate spam email from your inbox.

This download accompanies the MSDN articles "Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007" and "Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007."

Learn about support for the HTML and Cascading Style Sheets specification provided by Word 2007 and Outlook 2007. Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007 provides instructions to install and use the Outlook 2007 Tool: HTML and CSS Validator.

If you haven’t already heard, Outlook 2007, due to be released next month, will stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use the Microsoft Word rendering engine. Outlook enjoys a 75-80% share of the corporate email market, which is similar to Internet Explorer’s share of the browser market–they make the rules. Here’s just a taste of what won’t be supported.

With Vista and Office 2007 coming out soon, should you upgrade right away? Both Office 2007 and Vista will be available for you to buy on January 30th. What should you do? Read on to find out.

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Borrowing a page directly from Microsoft’s playbook, Oracle has implemented an advance notice mechanism for its quarterly release of security patches. Beginning with the first CPU (Critical Patch Update) for 2007, due on Jan. 16, the database server giant is implementing a CPU Pre-Release Announcement that includes the name of version numbers of Oracle products affected by patches, a total count of vulnerabilities being fixed and a severity score for the most serious product flaws.

A fully working exploit for a high-risk vulnerability fixed by Microsoft two days ago has been put into limited release, prompting new "patch now" warnings from computer security experts. The exploit, which allows PC takeover attacks on Windows XP SP2, has been published to Immunity’s partners program, which offers up-to-the minute information on new vulnerabilities and exploits to IDS (intrusion detection companies) and larger penetrating testing firms.

Silicon Graphics, which in October emerged from bankruptcy and staff cuts in October, is now teaming up with Microsoft to offer the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 operating system in its Xeon-based servers. SGI, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., will start offering the 64-bit operating system in all of its Altix XE cluster systems, which use both Intel’s dual-core and quad-core Xeon processors.