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Microsoft employees just like to use Google Search
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Microsoft employees just like to use Google Search

Nielsen / NetRatings has just come up with an interesting study, stating that most Microsoft employees use Google search engine information without spending money on hom…

December 12, 2018
Detects the third vulnerability in Microsoft Excel
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Detects the third vulnerability in Microsoft Excel

Excel users have a reason to worry, when yesterday, a hacker announced the attack code to an unpatched vulnerability in this application. This is also the third consecut…

December 12, 2018
MS Office has security problems
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MS Office has security problems

Experts have warned about a deadly weakness in how to handle Macromedia Flash files that can put users at risk of attack. Flash files embedded in MS Office files can run…

December 12, 2018
Explosive errors in Microsoft software
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Explosive errors in Microsoft software

Serious security holes account for 70% of these, but it is still too early to draw any conclusions. Just when the king of Microsoft empire - Bill Gates - was just new

December 12, 2018
Windows also ... Live
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Windows also ... Live

Microsoft 's Live brand services will not stop at the browser level, but they will penetrate further into the Windows operating system.

December 12, 2018
Bill Gates' new life
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Bill Gates' new life

Abandoning daily work at Microsoft, Bill Gates decided to leave the legacy in the way of many industrial tycoons. Today's Carnegie, Getty and Rockefeller names are not t…

December 12, 2018
Windows operating system for ... robots?
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Windows operating system for ... robots?

Yesterday, Microsoft introduced the CTP of a new Windows operating system, designed specifically for robots as well as all kinds of new generation electronics, from toys…

December 12, 2018
Add a security error that threatens MS Excel
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Add a security error that threatens MS Excel

Users of Microsoft Excel have to face the risk of being hacked when there is a completely new security error discovered in this application. Not only that, but the malic…

December 12, 2018
Bill Gates will leave Microsoft in 2008
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Bill Gates will leave Microsoft in 2008

The president of Microsoft Corporation announced that within the next two years, he will gradually withdraw from his current role in software giant Microsoft.

December 12, 2018
Microsoft stops all Windows XP SP1 support
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Microsoft stops all Windows XP SP1 support

This is the latest announcement from Microsoft to remind the solution providers and users about when the company stopped providing free support with this version of the…

December 12, 2018
Hackers start exploiting new Excel errors
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Hackers start exploiting new Excel errors

On the Security Response Center page, Microsoft warns hackers can distribute an malicious Excel document via e-mail or any file sending service to exploit errors in popu…

December 12, 2018
Microsoft website was ... hacked
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Microsoft website was ... hacked

On June 18, hackers successfully hacked into the French website of Microsoft and changed the look of this site's homepage with ... different drawings.

December 12, 2018
The numbers startle about destructive software
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The numbers startle about destructive software

One finding that startled people was that after 311 system scans, the company's security tool - the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (WMSRT), found a computer sti…

December 12, 2018
Appeared source code to attack Microsoft products
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Appeared source code to attack Microsoft products

Most of the patches that Microsoft has issued are widely known vulnerabilities. However, there are at least two new vulnerabilities published for the first time on June…

December 12, 2018
Last warning for users of Windows 98, ME
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Last warning for users of Windows 98, ME

Microsoft has just released the last warning for users who are using two old Windows operating systems, 98 and ME, which will be completely abandoned by Microsoft from J…

December 12, 2018