Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft
SAN FRANCISCO–In his keynote at the RSA security conference on Tuesday, Scott Charney, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Trustworthy Computing, suggested that the security industry should follow the health care model of quarantining infected PCs to prevent them from being used to send spam and conduct denial-of-service attacks.
In a follow-up interview afterward, Charney elaborated on his vision for reducing the damage from botnets and explains how infected computers should be kept off the Internet just like doctors quarantine sick people and smokers are restricted as to where they can light up in public.
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Apple’s plans for cloud computing go beyond music.
The company’s representatives have recently spoken with some of the major film studios about enabling iTunes users to store their content on the company’s servers, two people familiar with the discussions told CNET. That’s in addition to streaming television shows and music.
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Download a free version of Microsoft Word
Microsoft Office Word is a word processing software licensed by Microsoft and is usually included in the Microsoft Office suites with other desktop applications like Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. It is somehow also available in a standalone version that’s costs around $200. Since its release in 1983, Microsoft has launched versions of the program that were compatible with DOS, Windows and Mac operating systems.
The Microsoft Office suite must be purchased either from the installation CD licensed by Microsoft or downloaded from the official website.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/default.aspx
So far, there are no free versions of Word available for download online. However, you can choose to download the free trial version of Microsoft Office suite 2007 on Microsoft’s website. However, this free trial version is only available for US residents.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101741481033.aspx
Note: To be able to download free trials of Microsoft Office, the users should also have a registered and activated Windows Live account.
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More tweaks are on the way for Google Buzz amid reports that the company is considering building a Gmail-free version.
In response to the angry missive directed Google’s way Thursday by blogger Harriet Jacobs, Google has made additional changes to the way Buzz interacts with Google Reader, according to Silicon Alley Insider. Buzz users who had blocked other users from following them continued to see those users following their public Google Reader items, which Google described as a “bug.”
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Electrical-engineering student Matt Bunting and his hexapod robot.
While I’ve always been a little scared of spiders, watching student Matt Bunting’s hexapod robot dancing has all but cured me. Maybe it’s the combination of the folk guitar and little leg sways in the below video, but all of a sudden, spiders (at least the robotic kind) look so damn cute.
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Although some users have been grumbling about a variety of battery issues related to Windows 7, Microsoft says that its testing shows that nothing is amiss.
The software maker initially thought that there might be a problem with the firmware in some PC models causing an error message to appear where one was not warranted. However, Microsoft now says that it believes that the operating system is behaving properly.
In a blog posting on Monday, Windows division President Steven Sinofsky said that the company’s follow-up research shows that those seeing a notification that their batteries need replacing are getting the message because, in fact, the batteries are not performing up to a certain threshold.
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IBM on Monday is launching its long-anticipated Power7 processor and systems based on the chip.
The processor is a big step for IBM, integrating eight processing cores–four times the number of cores in the prior-generation Power6–in one chip package, with each core capable of executing four tasks–called “threads”–turning an individual chip into a virtual 32-core processor. As a yardstick, Intel’s high-end Xeon processors–systems that Power7 will compete with–typically have two threads per processing core and contain four cores.
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Microsoft plans to begin phasing out Unix and Linux platform support for its FAST enterprise search products, as of its next release.
According to a Thursday blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Bjørn Olstad, the team will be “investing in interoperability between Windows and other operating systems, reaffirming our commitment to 10 years of support for our non-Windows products, and taking concrete steps to help customers plan for the future.”
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A few weeks after releasing Thunderbird 3.0, an overhaul of its open-source e-mail software, Mozilla has issued an early test version of a successor that smooths rough edges and fixes some bugs.
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Google isn’t marching into consumer electronics; it’s tentatively dipping its toes.
When word of the Nexus One smartphone broke, the consensus was that Google was about to challenge Apple for the high end of the mobile phone market. One month after its launch, it’s clear that an awful lot will have to change before Google can truly be considered a viable competitor.
It’s not that there’s anything lacking from the Nexus One. It’s easily the best Android phone produced to date, and CNET editors recently decided it outranked the iPhone 3GS, Apple’s best iPhone to date.
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