Microsoft Learned of IE Zero-Day Flaw Last September

It seems that Microsoft learned of the vulnerability in Internet Explorer in September, they just weren’t in a rush to fix it.

Posted on: January 22, 2010 9:00 am

Microsoft dodges class action in WGA lawsuit

Back in 2006 Microsoft released a "patch" it claimed was a critical security update. The patch was actually Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), set to phone home and report on your system. Now a judge has ruled against the class-action status of the suit brought against Microsoft.

Posted on: January 22, 2010 9:00 am

Microsoft Office 2010: What’s in It for You?

Microsoft made a lot of changes to Office for this latest version. However, the ribbon bar remains and the learning curve could be steep. This article looks at some of the new features to tempt you into upgrading.

Posted on: January 22, 2010 9:00 am

Widespread Attacks Exploit Newly Patched IE Bug

If you haven’t applied the Internet Explorer patch, you might want to hurry. Widespread attacks, hosted on websites, have been spotted.

Posted on: January 22, 2010 9:00 am

New article: Disappearing text that’s not supposed to disappear

OutlookPower reader Mike Becker has one of the stranger questions we’ve gotten here at OutlookPower

Read this OutlookPower article.

Posted on: January 21, 2010 9:00 am

5nine Software Announces Release of Migrator for Microsoft Hyper-V

The 5nine P2V Migrator combines P2V migration planning, automated P2V and V2V conversion and workload optimization for Enterprise and SMB Hyper-V deployment projects.

Posted on: January 21, 2010 9:00 am

Windows 8 and beyond: Microsoft’s next decade

Looking in the crystal ball, the authors of this article take a stab at predicting Microsoft’s future in a 40-minute podcast.

Posted on: January 21, 2010 9:00 am

Microsoft Seeks Legal Protections for Data Stored in Cloud

If your company moves data into the cloud, hosted on someone else’s hardware, is it legally protected? If the hardware is in another country, which laws apply? These are questions being asked as Microsoft pushes for new laws governing data storage.

Posted on: January 21, 2010 9:00 am

Email archiving in your own private cloud

InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance is an integrated system for email archiving, electronic discovery, compliance, and real-time content monitoring for email policy management that works with Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange. Your mail archives are held on servers in your own private, hosted cloud.

Posted on: January 21, 2010 9:00 am

Windows plagued by 17-year-old privilege escalation bug

Some bugs are harder to kill than others. This particular bug popped up in Windows NT and has hung around in the Virtual DOS Machine component in every version of Windows since.

Posted on: January 20, 2010 9:00 am