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Microsoft will launch Office 2010 May 12 – Microsoft will
officially launch Office 2010 to businesses at an event slated for May 12, the company
announced today. Enterprises with volume license agreements will be able to obtain
the finished product that same day, Microsoft added. Office 2010 is set to go on
general sale to consumers and business without licensing deals sometime in June.
As expected, Microsoft today also unveiled a program that provides a free upgrade
to Office 2010 for customers who purchase the older Office 2007 between now and
Sept.30. Earlier this week, Microsoft's chief financial officer had confirmed that
the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee Program would launch this month. Last month,
details of the free Office 2010 upgrade program leaked to the Web when a Microsoft
technology specialist briefly posted information to the firm's partner community
site. Customers who purchase an eligible copy of Office 2007 between March 5 and
Sept. 30 will be allowed to download a corresponding edition of Office 2010 for
free when the new suite is available in June. Users who want a DVD installation
disc will have to pay a small shipping-and-handling fee. Microsoft said fees would
be announced in June. Buyers of Office Home and Student 2007 will receive a free
copy of Office Home and Student 2010, while buyers of Office Standard 2007 and Office
Basic 2007 will be eligible for a free copy of Office Home and Business 2010, a
new addition to the Office lineup. Purchases of Office Small Business 2007, Office
Professional 2007 or Office Ultimate 2007 will be eligible for a free copy of Office
Professional 2010.
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Google launches Google Apps software store – Google has launched
Google Apps Marketplace, a site designed to provide a venue for third-party applications
for Google users. The service is designed for those who use Google Gmail, Google
Docs, Google Sites and Google Calendar in a business environment and starts off
with contributions from 50 software developers, including Atlassian, NetSuite, Skytap
and Zoho. Users of Apps, Google's set of online office tools, can link to an application
via the user interface in Google applications, offering benefits like single sign-on
and sharing of data between Google Apps and third-party tools. Participation in
Google Apps Marketplace is open to customers of the Premier, Standard and Education
editions of Google Apps. Google began offering online applications five years ago,
and reached the 25 million-user mark last weekend and More than 2 million businesses
use the applications. Google will pass on 80 percent of revenues from Google Apps
Market sales to participating partners and keep the remaining 20 percent.
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IE9 Won't Support Windows XP – Windows XP users will not
be able to run the final version of Internet Explorer 9, according to Microsoft
executives, cutting out a decade-old, yet still popular operating system. In fact,
the Windows IE9 Platform Preview, as well as the final version, won't run on anything
but the latest Microsoft operating systems. Users trying to run the preview code
on an XP system will receive the following dialogue box: "Windows Internet Explorer
Platform Preview does not support any operating system earlier than Windows Vista
SP2." And of course, don't even think about versions for non-Windows operating systems.
Mac and Linux versions weren't currently in the company's plans. The reason IE9
doesn't work in XP is that it uses the Direct2D feature of DirectX when accessing
the graphics hardware to accelerate image creation and drawing. Direct2D was introduced
in Windows 7, but then added to Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but
not to Windows XP. It only makes sense that the OS vendor wants to give people as
many reasons to upgrade their PCs to Windows 7 as possible, and not spend developer
man-hours updating software that debuted nine years ago. Still, this probably won't
make XP loyalists smile. They may even jump ship to fast browsers that do run on
their platform - like Chrome, Opera, and Safari.
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Microsoft issues emergency patch for 10 IE holes – Microsoft
issued an emergency security update on Tuesday to plug 10 holes in Internet Explorer,
including a critical vulnerability that has been exploited in attacks in the wild.
The cumulative update, which Microsoft announced on Monday, resolves nine privately
reported flaws and one that was publicly disclosed. The most severe vulnerabilities
could lead to remote code execution and a complete takeover of the computer if a
user were to view a malicious Web site using IE. Users of IE8 and Windows 7 are
not vulnerable to the flaw being used in specific attacks. However, software affected
by the cumulative update addressing all the IE vulnerabilities includes Windows
2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008, Vista, and Windows 7. The
security bulletin also includes two other bulletins rated "important" that patch
a vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Producer 2003, and seven vulnerabilities
in Office Excel. Security experts were pleased that Microsoft chose to issue an
emergency out-of-band patch for the critical IE hole being attacked rather than
wait two more weeks for the next Patch Tuesday release.
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