The News Review:
- After Attacks Excel Update Due From Microsoft
- nline ffice gives Microsoft pen Web religion
- Microsoft: Dramatic Rise in ‘Scareware’ Infections
- Stop buying storage
- Ashampoo Presentations 2008 v1.0
After Attacks Excel Update Due From Microsoft
PC World
The software vendor has not said for certain whether it will patch this particular Excel flaw next week but it seems likely. Microsoft has also warned of a. Microsoft rates the IE and Excel fixes as critical along with three of the Windows updates meaning a hacker could take advantage of the flaws they patch to run unauthorized software on a PC.
nline ffice gives Microsoft pen Web religion
CNET News
)(Credit: Microsoft)Silverlight will improve the online ffice 14 interface when installed though Capossela wouldn’t share details of how beyond an earlier demonstration of zooming a document to high magnification. But he argued Microsoft doesn’t have to reproduce all the features of ordinary Word Excel PowerPoint and neNote in its online incarnations. “You’re probably not going to work for three hours straight in a browser but you’re going to want to do some lightweight work no matter what machine you have” he said. And if you’re editing documents on your own computer “We already have something on your machine. It defeats the purpose of doing productivity in the browser.
Microsoft: Dramatic Rise in ‘Scareware’ Infections
Washington Post
This time a flaw exists in PowerPoint versions 2000 2002 and 2003 that together with an unpatched flaw in Excel that Microsoft. Hopefully Microsoft will address at least one of these flaws on Patch Tuesday next week.
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Stop buying storage
ZDNet Asia
Data deduplication: Don’t store it in the first placeData deduplication is another technology that has gained wide acceptance as a tool to streamline the backup process. Deduplication eliminates duplicate data even when such data is unrelated greatly reducing the data multiplier effect on data. For example if a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation is stored on different file servers multiple times deduplication ensures that only one copy is stored no matter how many full or incremental backups occur. rganizations may consider specialized appliances to provide backup-to-disk and deduplication functions. However these appliances add complexity to the data center with more devices to manage and actually add capacity to the environment rather than using what already exists more efficiently. Data archiving: ut with the oldThin provisioning and data deduplication are strategies for reducing the growth rate and space consumption of new data or finding more efficient ways of storing it. These strategies must be combined with addressing unnecessary data storage in order to fully utilize existing assets.
Ashampoo Presentations 2008 v1.0
VNUNet.com
You can add all kinds of AutoShapes and format them with a full repertoire ofgraphical variations. Not only that: you can also animate objects as you likeset up stunning transitions between slides insert movies or sound files andcreate interactive slide shows that can be navigated with pushbuttons. Allfunctions are compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint but easier to use. Ashampoo Presentations 2008 comes with more than 40 attractive designtemplates: with a simple mouse click a complete presentation changes fromclassic or elegant to fancy and colorful and back. The built-in designs browserlets you quickly find a matching design for each of your presentation projects. Also shipping with Ashampoo Presentations 2008 is a large collection of picturebullets that let you quickly achieve visually pleasing results. Ashampoo Presentations 2008 offers a wide range of objects that you caninsert in your presentations: text frames tables pictures in a large varietyof file formats AutoShapes freehand drawings images from your scanner ordigital camera LE objects even sound files and movies.