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Microsoft and Yahoo Meet to Discuss Merger
Microsoft and Yahoo met on Monday to discuss Microsoft’s takeover offer for the Internet company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
RealPlayer flaw: Stop using Internet Explorer
Security experts are warning RealPlayer users to stop using Internet Explorer until a patch is released for a flaw researchers discovered which could allow code execution. Researcher Elazar Broad has posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list a so-called heap overflow vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to modify heap blocks after they [...]
Apple Sued Over iTunes Technology
Apple was sued Wednesday over allegations that its iTunes online music store and iPod music players are illegally using a patented method for distributing digital media over the Internet. Atlanta-based ZapMedia Services Inc. sued Apple in U.S.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 goes live
FROM MIX 08 - At last, we’ll all be able to see “Standards mode” for itself, and whether the new default operating mode for Internet Explorer truly adheres to written W3C standards as Microsoft now says it has bound its browser to do.
Vista SP1 RTM up to 86% faster
Is Vista SP1 really the shot in the arm your Vista system needs? We’ve spent many hours strapped to our benchmarking system in a caffeine and pizza fueled haze to uncover these very interesting results. In some areas, such as network file copying, Vista SP1 is dramatically faster — up to 86%.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Features Revealed
Microsoft has put in place the preparations for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ready for Mix 08.
A full features page has been revealed which lists the following additions to Internet Explorer:
Microsoft launches New MSN ‘SilverLight’ Toolbar.
Microsoft has launched a reincarnation of MSN Toolbar in beta form, codenamed Salsa. The toolbar is powered by Silverlight, which adds an extra dimension to the features on offer. This enables the drop-down MSN chanel previews, showing the latest content from within the MSN portal without requiring the user to move from the internet page [...]
IE8 will render in true standards mode, by default
In what is probably one of the most fantastic bit of news to come out of Redmond in a long time, Microsoft has announced today that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can.
Microsoft dismissed enthusiasts in Vista marketing
Spelling out which features of Windows Vista would work on a given PC might be useful to early adopters, but it would only “confuse the masses,” a high-level Microsoft Corp. manager argued more then a year before the operating system shipped, according to internal company e-mails.
Meeting Over OOXML Descends into Chaos
According to sources close to the situation, a closed-door meeting hosted by the ISO in Geneva to hammer out a consensus on whether a Microsoft document format should become an international standard descended into near chaos this week.
