Archive for July 13th, 2006
Thursday, July 13th, 2006 Microsoft has announced to offer Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 for FREE.Download Microsoft Virtual PC 2004http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downloads/sp1.mspxThey also announced a change to the Vista license related to virtualization: Customers who deploy Windows Vista Enterprise have the ability to install up to four (4) copies of the operating system in a virtual machine for a single user on a single device. Even better, nothing in the license requires that Microsoft Virtualization technologies be used - if you want to use a competing product as your Virtualization solution, you still get the four extra licenses for use with VMs.Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikekol/archive/2006/07/12/662511.aspx
(read more) Thursday, July 13th, 2006 Nine months after announcing they would make their instant messaging services interoperate, Yahoo and Microsoft have done it.The companies are set to release on Thursday a limited beta test of a service that will enable users of Windows Live Messenger (the next generation of MSN Messenger) and Yahoo Messenger with Voice to connect with each other.The move creates a global community of nearly 350 million accounts, the companies said. The beta service is being launched globally in 15 localized languages."It's the first-ever bridge between two global instant messaging services," Blake Irving, corporate vice president in Microsoft's Windows ...
(read more) Thursday, July 13th, 2006 Sixteen year-old Adriaan Graas from The Netherlands discovered an XSS (cross site scripting) exploit in Hotmail. The exploit allows hackers to steal cookies from their victims and obtain full control over their inboxes without the need of knowing their passwords.Details of the exploit can be found here:http://adriaangraas.feetback.nl/browse.php?vf=/security/exploits/hotmail/how-to.phpMore than a week later of his informing it to Microsoft, the billion-dollar company still hasn't fixed the flaw.
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