Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet? (2)
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Until I had a chance to look at some new screen shots on LiveSide.Net of Windows Live MovieMaker — yet another of the Windows Live Wave 3 services going to beta real soon now — I hadn’t really put two and two together. The lightbulb that just went off: As part of Microsoft’s mission to insure that Windows 7 and Windows Live Wave 3 are joined at the hip, Microsoft is exorcising features that used ...
The question that won’t go away: What comes after Yahoo? (2)
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During an appearance at the Citi Global Technology Conference on September 4, Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell faced the same question that he’s been answering for months: What is Microsoft’s online strategy now that the company has decided against buying Yahoo? And Liddell’s answer to that question hasn’t changed: Microsoft will continue to grow its online business organically while making smaller acquisitions in the space. Liddell spoke and fielded questions for close to an ...
First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent? | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com (3)
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During the NFL season opener on September 4, Microsoft aired the first of the ads that it paid agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky $300 million-plus to create to help make over the company’s image. Here it is, courtesy of YouTube: No mentions or even thinly veiled references to Apple. And there is only an indirect reference to Windows. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not yearning for the “Wow Starts Now.” But I’m not wowed by ...
Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds? (2)
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When Microsoft was developing Vista, or Longhorn, as it was known way back when, company officials were fond of making promises about ways that Microsoft would improve on Windows XP with its next-generation Windows release. With Windows 7, Microsoft’s goal seems to be to provide as few promises as possible against which the final product can and will be compared and measured. That said, over the Labor Day weekend in a post by Distinguished Engineer ...
New Microsoft virtualization license lets hosters deliver third-party software as a service (1)
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The rumors from earlier this spring turned out to be true: Microsoft is licensing its application virtualization technology to hosting providers, setting the stage for hosters to offer third-party software as a service. The back story: Microsoft offers application-virtualization technology — formerly known as SoftGrid and now called “App-V” — as one of a number of elements of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) to its Software Assurance customers. (App-V is based on technology Microsoft ...
Microsoft’s Google Docs competitor to go final by year-end (7)
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Microsoft is preparing to move Office Live Workspace, the online storage/collaboration service adjunct to Office, from beta to final before the end of this year. Microsoft officials said on September 3 that as of a week ago, the public beta of Office Live Workspace had been downloaded by one million customers. Microsoft released the public beta six months ago. Microsoft’s goal is to release the final version of Office Live Workspace — the product Microsoft ...
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sarahintampa said:
She says: "...users are choosing Google Docs more because they feel Office is overpriced than because they want to create documents in the cloud"...do you agree?
Quick Update (2)
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I've received a number of (very nice) emails recently asking if I was ok - since my blog has been silent the last few weeks (and much of the summer). Just to address people's concerns - I'm alive and well. :-) I've just been on vacation the last 6 weeks, and have unfortunately not had free time to post (I've been changing a lot of diapers). I am still on vacation another week before I ...
Microsoft’s WinMobile team: Big on futures, slow on deliverables (4)
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With Google’s Chrome browser announcement and revelation of plans by Microsoft to roll out an iPhone app store competitor, all eyes should be on Windows Mobile. A quick recap of the long weekend’s news: After saying two years ago Google had no plans to develop its own browser, Eric Schmidt and Co. are doing just that — and, ironically, using the same codename (”Chrome”) Microsoft used years back for a multimedia browsing technology. Many pundits, ...
ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios - ScottGu's Blog (12)
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This past Thursday the ASP.NET MVC feature team published a new "Preview 5" release of the ASP.NET MVC framework. You can download the new release here. This "Preview 5" release works with both .NET 3.5 and the recently released .NET 3.5 SP1. It can also now be used with both Visual Studio 2008 as well as (the free) Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1 edition (which now supports both class library and web application projects). ...
Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism (6)
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Let me say from the outset that I was not a fan of Opera Software’s antitrust sabre-rattling a few months back over Microsoft’s lack of standards compliancy with its browser. But Opera’s latest complaints about Internet Explorer (IE) 8 make Opera look even more like a company that’s gone off the deep end. Hakon Lie, the Chief Technology Officer of Opera, airs some of his dissatisfaction with how the new beta of Microsoft’s IE 8 ...
What they dont teach you in any school - Appreciation (2)
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Back when I was doing MBA, one of the first courses we took was called MOC (Managerial Oral Communication). The idea of the course is simple. Each of the 60 students in class would give a 12 minute presentation on any topic of their choice to everyone. Then everyone has 8 minutes to provide suggestions, remarks to the presenter so that he/she can improve. It seemed like a great idea then. But most of the ...
Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly (102)
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So I have this friend. I've told him time and time again how dangerous XSS vulnerabilities are, and how XSS is now the most common of all publicly reported security vulnerabilities -- dwarfing old standards like buffer overruns and SQL injection. But will he listen? No. He's hard headed. He had to go and write his own HTML sanitizer. Because, well, how difficult can it be? How dangerous could this silly little toy scripting language ...
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Mone said:
manca un punto, poter accedere ai cookie tramite javascript può servire a proteggersi da XSRF.HttpOnly cookies impediscono questa difesa ma non impediscono XSS, 'bloccano' (lui stesso parla dei buchi nelle attuali implementazioni) solo l'acceso a un'informazione delle tante disponibili a un javascript iniettato. Un esempio banale, il codice attaccante può sempre simulare una finestra di login falsa all'interno di una pagina valida...
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jmvidal said:
Good tip.
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dd said:
When you tag a cookie with the HttpOnly flag, it tells the browser that this particular cookie should only be accessed by the server. Any attempt to access the cookie from client script is strictly forbidden.
