Windows 7 News: Software, Virus Protection

According to Microsoft, all Windows 7 (actually any Windows user) users are recommended to install antivirus software to protect themselves against viruses and other malicious software online. When it comes to choosing the right software Microsoft only advice their users to pick one of the major antivirus companies listed on their “windows 7 consumer security software providers” page. An important notice on this page is that you should always make sure that you don’t already have an antivirus product installed before you install a new one.
Ironicly, this isn’t listed …

One of the main organizers of this years Hack in the Box conference which will take place in July 2010, Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran, claims in an interview on WebWereld (webwereld.nl) that Windows 7 contains severe flaws which compromise the overall security of the system. According to Mr. Kannabhiran is this a “quite fundamental problem, because an attacker basically can manipulate the PC’s memory.” The issue lies the motherboard (and DMA) of the 64-bit edition of Windows 7 and causes a weakness, so the attacker can bypass the operation system’s security …

Today (15, Jun 2010) Microsoft announced that Office 2010 is available in retail so everyone can buy it, though Volume Licensing customers have been able to get their hands on it since April 27.
In this new version of Office Microsoft main goal has been to make it easier to store, edit and work with files online. With Microsoft Office Web Apps it is possible to keep versions of the same document synchronized so a whole group can work together on the same project, even though they are not at the …

In a post on Microsoft’s blog mactopia it is announced that they are moving the user interface of Office for Mac 2011 from Carbon over to Cocoa for a better performance. The main problem have been the lack of compatibility between the Windows and the Mac version of Office. The problem was already being discussed when Office for Mac 2011 was introduced (Feb. 11, 2010), and Microsoft stated that:

“Nowadays, compatibility means more than just file formats,” Microsoft’s Kurt Schmucker told Macworld. “It’s also workflow, collaboration, and user interface.”

Office for Mac …

Those of you who have been following the late engineering work at Microsoft know that Microsoft Office 2010 went by the codename Office 14 untill it was released. So it didn’t require much guesswork to crack the meaning behind the name Office 15, when it showed up in a Microsoft employee blog comment in september 2009 along with the name Office 2013. Well, this is all old news, but recently Microsofts Kitchen (http://msftkitchen.com) discovered a similar note in a (now deleted) job experience profile of a Program Manager at Microsoft …