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The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML
Comment Against this background, it is better that a pervasive file format is managed in the safe hands of a standards body. Beyond questions of fitness for purpose, there are bigger concerns about a standards body making decisions that could perpetuate an... [04 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment We use centralised file stores. M is for Microsoft In terms of the technical controls - the procedures to be followed by staff - the material in its sister standard ISO 27002 has much more detail on nitty-gritty stuff," Cole says. [28 Mar 2008]
How to detect data leaks
Comment Ever-increasing email attachment file sizes and multi-gigabyte removable storage is driving an alarming increase in the volume of data leaking from companies. M is for Microsoft These tools look at data across the entire organisation - at rest, in... [19 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment But because the HRMC decided it would be too costly to get the contractor to create a new field for the databases, it sent the entire claimants file over, including the bank account details of seven million parents and guardians. [10 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment Always file on the last day, not because you are lazy but because sometimes there can be significant advantages. ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Wi-fi field tests ¦ Microsoft changes M&A strategy with Yahoo! [07 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista uptake… HMRC blunder… iPhone too cool or too costly?
Comment I have one of our test Vista machines and it is far from stable, slow to browse file shares and still incompatible with various software. Mike Sievert, corporate vice president of Microsoft, said in a recent interview: "Frankly, the world wasn't... [29 Nov 2007]
Leader: Why Vista's going to be a hard sell
Leader It is this rush to get Vista out in a reasonable timescale, after all the false starts, that has forced Microsoft to drop some of the more important features originally promised, such as the WinFS file system. [30 Nov 2006]
Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer
Comment On his list are some new things, such as new models for computer programming, as well as some old things such as his long-standing dream of a new, unified file-storage system for Windows. Shortly after announcing he will become a part-timer at... [16 Jun 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Vendor battleground - filtering
Comment Similar threats existed around instant messaging (IM), webmail, file transfer (FTP) and other ways of posting content outside of the business such as wikis and blogs. Brightmail was acquired by Symantec in 2004 and in 2005 Microsoft acquired... [02 Mar 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft's new allies
Comment The coming version will use XML, and there have been attempts to persuade the ignorant that this is, in itself, a standardisation of the file formats. And all this comes just at the time when a fresh battle over Office file formats is brewing. [15 Nov 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Searching for search technology
Comment Consider the 'find file' mechanism in Microsoft Windows, or the search facility in any email tool. The scope of a search can always be widened, and provided it can happen efficiently, it will always be preferable to search across multiple file... [26 Aug 2005]
Leader: Google, a media company?
Leader We're not about to ask them all but a trip to the infamous Googleplex will tell you it's the latter, at least among most of the rank and file. And Google overtaking Microsoft in size? Why not Microsoft, another company Google competes with, one... [09 Jun 2005]
Leader: Apple work with Microsoft? Let the people decide
Leader Despite some attempts and overtures made by other tech firms to get Apple to open up its file formats, those self-same rivals are the first to say they'd rather the door to the iPod was opened voluntarily than kicked down. [07 Apr 2005]
Will IP unify communications?
Comment While heavyweight applications from the likes of Siemens, Nortel and others allow this kind of thing, free applications such as Skype also allow instant messaging, file transfer and conferencing calling, as well as basic one-to-one calling. [18 Feb 2005]
Leader: Hotmail AV deal - the scurrilous rumour angle
Leader So, the next point is definitely one to file under 'wild speculation'. In June McAfee, normally silent on such matters, was outspoken in denying any possible deal with Microsoft when it was alleged the Seattle giant had aspirations of ready-made... [20 Dec 2004]
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