The News Review:
- SMB IT | Curtis Franklin | TAG: Book Reviews | InfoWorld
- MS to ‘backport’ ffice 2007 security improvements
- … cyberspying.(SECURITY LG)(USA Today report on Microsoft…
- Clinton’s PowerPointer
- Microsoft ffice Specialist Certification
- Jane’s C4I Systems
SMB IT | Curtis Franklin | TAG: Book Reviews | InfoWorld
InfoWorld – Apr 30, 2007
Bove does comment on the growing success of open source. But he does it in such a one-sided tone that the same FUD he blames Microsoft for winds up obscuring his own work. PowerPoint even partially at fault for the 2003 NASA shuttle crash? Are you kidding me? Don’t do that. Scenarios on how Active Directory could be used to hose down a Microsoft network? Don’t do that either. The people who know PowerPoint know that if there was a bad PowerPoint slide you blame the author not the program. (Especially if two pages later you’re crowing about Impress which was engineered to be a PowerPoint clone.
MS to ‘backport’ ffice 2007 security improvements
Register – Apr 30, 2007
Service Pack 3 (SP3) for ffice 2003 will “backport” some (but not all) of the security improvements built into ffice 2007. “We’re trying to take what we learned from building ffice 2007 and bring as much as we can to ffice 2003″ Joshua Edwards a technical product manager for ffice at Microsoft… But Edwards suggested that hardening applications and file parsers against attacks are among the improvements. Customised attacks targeting vulnerabilities in Word and PowerPoint are on the rise according to net security firms such as MessageLabs so Redmond’s work on making these applications less of a soft target for hackers is welcome. ffice 2003 SP2 released in September 2005 also focused on security. Sadly it didn’t do much to stem the usual tide of security bugs. ffice 2007 has proved more robust resisted a.
… cyberspying.(SECURITY LG)(USA Today report on Microsoft…
Free with registration – Computerworld – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 30, 2007
ffice docs used for cyberspying. (30-APR-07) Computerworld.
Clinton’s PowerPointer
Washington Post – Apr 30, 2007
A Business-Minded ApproachToday from a sleek 12th-floor office just off Thomas Circle Penn manages both the strategy of the Democratic presidential front-runner and a multimillion-dollar corporation as worldwide chief executive of Burson-Marsteller a 2000-employee public relations firm. The job is the latest iteration of the lucrative corporate work that Penn and Schoen began in the 1980s at the same time they were making their names as political pollsters and that put them in the company of a new generation of business-minded Democratic consultants. Among their clients over the years were AT&T Eli Lilly Texaco and Microsoft. Their specialty was corporate research and positioning — figuring out for example how AT&T could outflank competitor MCI by targeting uncommitted customers the business equivalent of seeking out swing voters. While some Democratic rivals criticized the crossover work suggesting that Penn had sold out or worse the polling firm expanded rapidly with Penn and Schoen adapting corporate models to the political sphere and vice versa. A year and a half ago Penn was named CE of Burson-Marsteller succeeding Thomas Nides another Democratic campaign operative. Although he is Clinton’s chief strategist he is not technically on the campaign staff… when he is often still sending out political e-mails. Some rivals and colleagues suspect he is polling for Clinton on a nightly basis which Penn says is not true. The ‘Penn PowerPoint’They called it the "Penn PowerPoint" the distillation of Penn’s thinking about how Clinton can become president and at small dinners at the home of Clinton friend Vernon Jordan this winter Penn narrated it for the benefit of potential donors. n some nights Penn was joined by other Clinton luminaries such as former commerce secretary Mickey Kantor and economic aide Gene Sperling. After a question-and-answer session the several dozen guests would walk en masse from the Jordans’ home to Clinton’s home on Whitehaven Street for dinner. Penn’s pitch went something like this: f course Hillary Clinton can win the presidency. She is already winning.
Microsoft ffice Specialist Certification
TechRepublic – Apr 30, 2007
Have tested for Access and failed it once. I am scheduled to take it again next month. Wasn’t as easy to me as the rest. The test exams on Microsoft’s site are pretty accurate… Preparation is key. My certs hang on my wall in my office. Co-workers ask if I could help them with a MS ffice matter and I proudly state “Yes of course I am certified!” It lookes great on the resume also. I am looking to become Master certified and eventually instruct the Suite to others.
Jane’s C4I Systems
Jane's – Apr 30, 2007
These are used to aid planning process compliance and to reduce training costs. Process templates have linked output templates which are used to build process-compliant output documents in Microsoft® Word or Powerpoint® formats. Process variants can be produced for a single operation or saved as new templates. Process steps (items) have notes stored in detailed summary and log formats for long form and briefing output and process audit purposes. peration reference documents (files or URLs) can be linked to items for procedural completeness.