The News Review:
- Getting on with the show
- Microsoft To Allow Windows 7-To-XP Downgrades Until April 2011
- Freelance Layout Parsing Vulnerability In Microsoft PowerPoint
Getting on with the show
BusinessDay.com.au
–> Getting on with the show. –> September 13 2007 Presentations have come a long way since the days of Textas and butcher’s paper writes Terry Lane. Microsoft PowerPoint is the de rigueur application these days for anyone planning on spruiking to a crowd. Blackboard whiteboard butcher’s paper and overhead projector are all obsolete. The 35 mm slide projector is somewhere in the cupboard but who knows where we last had it. These days bullet points are compulsory but why stop there? PowerPoint can use text graphics images video and sound and produces a stand-alone presentation that tells the story without the need to stand up and read out the words on the screen. A pal popped around the other day with 20 beautiful digital photographs he had taken on a recent trip to outback New South Wales and he wanted them turned into a PowerPoint presentation to astonish family and friends.
Microsoft To Allow Windows 7-To-XP Downgrades Until April 2011
ChannelWeb
This would have forced recession-strapped companies to either buy new PCs before that date or consider expensive volume licensing agreements if they wanted to continue using XP. Windows 7 looks set to wipe away the.
Related from Ubuntunews: Microsoft allows HP to wipe Windows 7 with XP through 2010
Freelance Layout Parsing Vulnerability In Microsoft PowerPoint
pc1news
This vulnerability relates to the one and only Microsoft PowerPoint. The successful exploitation of this vulnerability will result in the dreaded execution of arbitrary code. As you probably have guessed this vulnerability can be exploited by malicious characters with the intentions of compromising the systems of targeted users.