Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops

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snydeq writes "Enterprise licensing for Windows 7 could cause major headaches and add more cost to the Windows 7 migration effort, InfoWorld reports. Under the proposed license, businesses that purchase PCs with Windows 7 pre-installed within six months of the Oct. 23 launch date will be able to downgrade those systems to XP, and later upgrade back to Windows 7 when ready to migrate users. PCs bought after April 22, 2010, however, can only be downgraded to Vista — no help for XP-based organizations, which would be wise to wait 12 to 18 months before adopting Windows 7, so that they can test hardware and software compatibility and ensure their vendors' Windows 7 support meets their needs. XP shops that chose not to install Vista will have to either rush their migration process or spend extra to enroll in Microsoft's Software Assurance program, which allows them to install any OS version — for about $90 per year per PC."

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Microsoft veta reembolso de iPhone e BlackBerry a funcionários

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A Microsoft vetou o reembolso dos celulares iPhone e BlackBerry (fabricados pela Apple e Research in Motion, respectivamente), entre seus funcionários, que só terão restituição das contas caso o aparelho seja equipado com o sistema operacional Windows Mobile. Segundo informou a imprensa americana na segunda-feira (15), a fabricante de softwares deixará de reembolsar seus mais de 90 mil funcionários que usarem celulares sem o Windows Mobile, mesmo que o uso tenha finalidade de trabalho.

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Microsoft vetou o uso dos celulares iPhone e BlackBerry entre seus funcionários, apenas aparelhos com Windows Mobile serão aceitos

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Microsoft: Money Just Wants to Be Free

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-06-15-016-35-OP-MS-SW

Tech Broiler: "Microsoft is abandoning its personal finance software, Microsoft Money, after over 16 years of development and marketing. But why abandon perfectly good software when it could be released to the community as an Open Source project?"

Why Windows is not yet ready for the Desktop

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-06-12-034-35-OP-MS

Climbing the Hill: "1.5 Any OS that regularly requires a wipe and reinstall to fix is beyond tolerance by any sane person."

Why Microsoft Hates - No, *Really* Hates - ODF

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Open Enterprise: "Its core Office franchise remains incredibly profitable, with an enviable 75% operating margin, and this has been bankrolling most everything else."

Microsoft's Free AV App May Be a Non-Starter

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CWmike writes "Microsoft is preparing to launch a public beta of Morro, the free anti-malware it announced last November, according to reports. Morro will use the same scanning engine as Windows Live OneCare, the software that the free software will replace and Microsoft's first consumer-grade antivirus package. OneCare is to get the boot as of June 30 (along with finance app Microsoft Money). John Pescatore, an analyst at Gartner, has questioned whether users would step up to Morro even if it was free. 'Consumers are hesitant to pay for a Microsoft security product that will remove problems in other Microsoft products,' he said. 'Think of it this way. What if you smelled a rotten egg odor in your water and the water company said, "Sure, we can remove that, but it will cost you $50." Would you buy it?' Not surprisingly, competitors have dismissed Morro's threat to their business. 'We like our chances,' Todd Gebhart, vice president in charge of McAfee's consumer line, said when it was announced OneCare was a goner. 'Consumers have already rejected OneCare,' added Rowan Trollope, senior vice president of consumer software at Symantec. 'Making that same substandard security technology free won't change that equation.'"

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Microsoft Sets Record With Monster Patch Tuesday

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CWmike writes "Microsoft today issued 10 security updates that patched a record 31 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Excel, Word, Windows Search and other programs, including 18 bugs marked 'critical.' Of the 10 bulletins, six patched some part of Windows, while three patched an Office application or component, and one fixed a flaw in IE. The total bug count was the most patched by Microsoft in a single month since the company began regularly scheduled updates in 2003. The previous record of 26 vulnerabilities patched occurred in both August 2008 and August 2006. 'This is a very broad bunch,' said Wolfgang Kandek, CTO at Qualys, 'compared to last month, which was really all about PowerPoint. You've got to work everywhere, servers and workstations, and even Macs if you have them. It's not getting any better, the number of vulnerabilities [Microsoft discloses] continues to grow.'"

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Rússia investiga Microsoft por violação de concorrência - Diário Digital

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Microsoft's Bing Refuses Search Term "Sex" In India

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An anonymous reader writes "Apparently Microsoft is censoring search results for bing in India and other countries. If you try to search for the term 'sex,' along with lots of variations, from India using Microsoft's new search engine, an error message is returned that says, 'the search sex may return sexually explicit content. To get results, change your search terms.' There's no preference setting or toggle-on-or-off choice; you simply cannot search for the term 'sex' in India if you are using bing. While a user still can change their country and try the non-Indian version of bing, this seems like an unnecessary step and unnecessary censorship on the part of Microsoft. Apparently Google has no problem with Indians searching for the term 'sex.'"

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Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension

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hemantm writes "A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla's Firefox Web browser."

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