Windows XP Last “Patch”
Microsoft released an update regarding the initial notification of the latest security patches that will be released on Tuesday (07/13/2010). In total there are five vulnerabilities that will be addressed by these patches.
For Windows XP there are two patches to be released. Respectively are for the problems that have been disclosed to Microsoft, but have not been resolved. One is the vulnerability of so-called zero-day in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that help system disclosed a month ago by Travis Ormandy.
Patches will be the last for Windows XP SP2 because Microsoft will soon stop technical support for these operating systems. Today is also the last day security update for Windows 2000 and certainly will end support from Microsoft without a new patch again.
Other vulnerabilities to be addressed is the weakness that has been known since last May on 64-bit version of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Although technically this includes a critical vulnerability, Microsoft said that it would be very difficult to exploit. For Windows Vista, there are no weaknesses that need to be addressed.
Two other recent patch update is intended for Microsoft Office. One of the critical updates is categorized and the other is an important update. All of them support the version of Office except for Office 2010 that has just been released.
Microsoft Respond Cold Google Presence Buzz
Google’s presence Buzz, a new social networking service that Google buried in the Gmail service from 9 February 2010 received a cold response from rival Microsoft. According to Microsoft, what does Google do no better than a similar service that had already been available in hotmail, Busy people who do not need a new social networking service, Dharmes According to Mehta, Director of Windows Live product management said that, what they want is the convenience of access. Windows Live is able to do it.
He said that Microsoft’s Hotmail service has since 2008 provided through the social networking aggregation model. Hotmail users can activate the feed for the various services that are owned by Microsoft co-operation with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and 75 other partners.
Google does not just do the same thing by providing import from Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, and Picasa, but it provides a new menu of update messages. In addition, Google also associate with the Google Maps service that can share location between the user messaging.
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