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Archive for November 22nd, 2005

22 Nov

SANS: Top 20 vulnerabilities

Computerworld News and eWeek point to an interesting SANS report. Computerworld: “SANS: Cyberattackers found green fields in 2005. After years of writing viruses and worms for operating systems and Internet server software, hackers found new areas to target in 2005, according to a report on security trends released today.”
It’s interesting to see malicious crackers moving [...]

22 Nov

Xbox 360 shortages: panic in the streets?

Ken “Caesar” Fisher over at Ars Technica reports “Xbox 360: shortages no joke. Today I ventured out into the wilderness of North Boston to gauge Xbox mania. Initial reports on the ground paint a pretty grim picture for pre-Christmas Xbox shipments.”
There’s two possible explanations. Many, many, many rumor-mongers insist that Microsoft is staging this shortage, [...]

22 Nov

Microsoft announces Simple Sharing Extensions

Over at Scripting News, Dave Winer posts Sharing at so many levels!.
“Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called SSE, which stands for Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML. “… “Now, in 2005, almost ten years later, we may be grown-up enough to actually work this way.”
Tigers and their stripes. I’m skeptical, of course. There’s [...]

22 Nov

Microsoft to seek ISO standardization for Office 12 formats

InfoWorld: Top News reports “Update: Microsoft to open Office document format. (InfoWorld) - Microsoftæon Monday said it will offer its Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document formats as open standards, a move that could spark a war with technology rivals over standard document formats.”
Interesting. I wonder if ISO standardization will really change the basic positioning. Will [...]

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