Gartner analysts have dubbed Microsoft’s Windows 8 as a “big gamble” that will see the operating system peak at just 20% to 25% of corporate PCs. “Microsoft is taking a big gamble over the next few months with ...
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Google will pull the plug for Chrome running on OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, after it releases version 21, which is currently in beta and will reach the browser's "stable" channel sometime next month, the company has announced. Chrome 22, the ...
Facebook on Tuesday launched a feature that allows users to lock down their Facebook accounts and perform malware scans if they suspect that their computers might be infected. Facebook already uses internal scanners to detect spam and ...
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A European aeronautical supplier's website has been infected with a state-sponsored zero-day exploit, according to security firm, Sophos. Business IT administrators and other computer users should use caution in the light of the discovery ...
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Microsoft has now updated Flash on Windows 8 to protect IE10 users from attacks that may have started months ago. More than a week before, Microsoft had backed away from an earlier position that held it would not patch Flash until late ...
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Cisco released free software updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in its AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client as well as other hardware security appliances including its ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances. The Cisco ...
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Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after its launch. The support lifecycle for the Surface with Windows RT tablet is less than half the ...
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Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft today patched a dozen vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer(IE),Windows,Word and Exchange,fixing flaws in the new IE10 for the first time and crushing bugs in Windows 8 and Windows RT for the second month running. ...
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Windows XP has fewer than 500 days left to live,according to Microsoft and third-party countdown clocks. Microsoft will end support for XP on April 8,2014,when it will issue a final security update for the 11-year-old operating ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after its launch. The support lifecycle for the Surface with Windows RT tablet is ...
Computerworld - Adobe has changed its schedule for releasing Flash Player security updates to coincide with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule. "Microsoft and Adobe are now officially married," joked Andrew Storms, director of security ...
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Microsoft today patched 19 vulnerabilities in Windows,Internet Explorer 9(IE9),Excel and the.Net development framework,including four flaws in the just-released Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. Of Tuesday's six security ...
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Microsoft will release a preview of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7 on Tuesday, according to a report from a Chinese website, citing the company's head of IE marketing. The Chinese blog iFanr said that the preview, which ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft today announced it will issue six security updates next week,including three for Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. The half-dozen updates will patch 19 vulnerabilities in Windows,Internet ...
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