The News Review:
- Week in review: Microsoft in the crosshairs
- Microsoft Developer: ‘Fuzzing’ key to ffice Security
- From EC rules on Microsoft to a load of old bollocks
- PC Pro: News: First look: IBM’s free office suite
- From free depending on tariff
Week in review: Microsoft in the crosshairs
ZDNet – Sep 21, 2007
A European court dealt a severe blow to Microsoft’s competitive ambitions in Europe Monday by siding with regulators in an antitrust case against the company. In its ruling the Court of First Instance upheld European Commission claims that Microsoft abused its dominant position in the operating system market. Microsoft’s allies and competitors have been closely following the case since the Commission imposed antitrust sanctions against the company in early 2004. The court’s decision is expected to have far-reaching implications for consumers computer makers Microsoft competitors and perhaps most pointedly the Commission’s ability to regulate technology companies on antitrust matters legal experts and industry observers say… Meanwhile Google introduced Google Presentations an online version of Microsoft’s PowerPoint presentation application that complements Google’s Web-hosted document editor and spreadsheet. The flurry of investment in productivity software points to technology and business changes in the IT industry that are making Microsoft’s cash cow vulnerable to alternatives particularly among small businesses and consumers. Intel’s power play With the next two generations of Intel’s chips set in place the company is looking forward to a low-power future Intel CE Paul tellini said in his keynote address kicking off the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Intel will launch the server and high-end desktop versions of its Penryn generation of chips on November 12 in line with previous reports expecting those chips before the Thanksgiving holiday. And Intel has also completed the design for Nehalem a more radical overhaul of the company’s chip blueprints.
Microsoft Developer: ‘Fuzzing’ key to ffice Security
PC World – Sep 21, 2007
“LeBlanc one of the proponents of Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) initiative and. The suite’s core applications — Word Excel and. “I can’t gloss this over. You can look up the security bulletins that apply to ffice 2003 yourself. “The attacks and the flaws they exposed not only prompted immediate patches — and the release this week of ffice 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) — but pushed Microsoft to step up efforts to track down bugs before shipping code.
From EC rules on Microsoft to a load of old bollocks
Register – Sep 21, 2007
The implications would be far reaching with the effects being felt by other big firms and the smaller firms that do business with them. First the EC then Google attacksBut last week was about more than Microsoft. There was news about Google too as the firm launched its.
PC Pro: News: First look: IBM’s free office suite
PC Pro – PC Pro – Sep 21, 2007
But is its Lotus Symphony software a real threat to Microsoft ffice or simply another cheap pretender? Matthew Sparkes finds outHot on the heels of. Lotus Symphony is based in part on pen ffice the open-source office suite to which IBM recently pledged some of its own developers’ time. Behind the scenes both packages are essentially the same but the look and feel of the user interface is completely different.
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TrustedReviews – Sep 21, 2007
This is the version of the S designed for what Microsoft used to want us to call Windows Mobile for Smartphones. The screen isn’t touch sensitive so there’s no tappable on-screen keyboard or handwriting recognition here. But there is Word Excel PowerPoint and PDF document viewing and basic editing of the first two for which clearly you will need to be K with the keyboard. Palm says there is 150MB of user storage available. After a hard reset my review sample reported 151MB… This is the version of the S designed for what Microsoft used to want us to call Windows Mobile for Smartphones. The screen isn’t touch sensitive so there’s no tappable on-screen keyboard or handwriting recognition here. But there is Word Excel PowerPoint and PDF document viewing and basic editing of the first two for which clearly you will need to be K with the keyboard. Palm says there is 150MB of user storage available. After a hard reset my review sample reported 151MB. The microSD card slot you can use to expand on this is under the battery so if you are thinking of using it to get music ebooks or whatever onto the device without going through ActiveSync you are going to be powering the Treo 500v up and down a lot. The Treo 500v is a tri-band GSM phone with 3G but no HSDPA.