“The key problem is that NSA has a dual mission, COMPUSEC, computer security, now called cyber security, and SIGINT, signals intelligence, in other words surveillance,” said Marc Rotenberg of Electronics Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

“The key point is that the NSA is not the right agency to promote computer security in the private sector,” Rotenberg added.

Source: TG DAILY

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No Backdoor in 7

If Automatic Update is enabled on the operating system, it will be installed automatically says Microsoft.

The ability to suppress backup warnings and waking up a Windows 7 machine at a scheduled backup time as well as instructing it to sleep after the backup finishes are two of the new features of Power Pack 3.

Source: Digital Home

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Windows Home Server PP3

“We also see a reasonable amount of Windows XP (which has been around for eight years) on machines. We expect the natural refresh cycle over the next 12-24 months,” says Microsoft’s corporate vice-president, OEM. Microsoft’s target is to have 7 installed on over 100 PC models.

“We have reached around 80 PC models. The target is well within our reach,” Steven Guggenheimer asserts.

Source: Business Standard

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Windows 7 in Indian Firms

The Chinese fonts belong to Zhongyi Electronics and Microsoft believes its license agreement with the firm covered in full their use of the fonts.

Those fonts are not included with Vista and 7.

The article at The Register includes that the source of this news is from a state television broadcaster, CCTV.

Source: The Register

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XP Sales Halted in China

The article at The Register notes that the crash would happen without a visible indication that something is wrong with the user’s PC.

Laurent Gaffié has posted a proof of concept code. The white hat security researcher writes, “Whatever your firewall is set to, you can get remotely smashed via IE or even via some broadcasting nbns tricks, [with] no user interaction.”

He previously highlighted flaws that have a greater risk in terms of code execution two months ago.

Source: The Register

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Windows 7 Remote Vulnerability

One of the other critical update fixes a vulnerability in the WSDAPI which stands for Web Services on Devices Application Programming Interface. Only Vista and Windows Server 2003 are affected by this patch.

A couple of updates are designed to fix bugs in Word and Office. Mac and PC users need this update if they have Microsoft Office.

Source: The Register

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Six Patches Released by Microsoft

Today, at Berlin Germany, Microsoft delivered Exchange Server in a conference. This version has a universal inbox and an improved productivity of 20 percent as well as 70 percent of “cost savings”.

“If we cannot meet our mandate of using the same OS for all servers and a standard collaborative mail server architecture from Microsoft, then we will have to look at other offerings,” wrote Derek who is a customer of Exchange 2007.

Source: Channel Register

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No Exchange Server 2007 Support

Stephen Baker of NDP Group said, “I would call it pretty good, but I wouldn’t call it great.”

“The fact of the matter is that prior to the launch, there were a lot of operating systems out there. When Vista launched, you didn’t see a lot of Windows Millennium PCs. Windows 7 will be more of a long haul,” he added.

The revenue of Windows 7 is only an 82% increase over Vista.

Source: COMPUTERWORLD

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Windows 7 Sales Results

The update can be downloaded at sync.live.com. Users need to sign in with their Windows Live ID.

The software is designed to sync files across at least two computers with either a Windows or Mac OS X operating systems. Windows Live Sync used to be called FolderShare.

Source: Ars Technica

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Windows Live Sync Mac Update

“For those of you without an existing Windows license to upgrade from, you should be aware that an upgrade license by itself is not a license to install and run Windows on your computer,” he wrote in a blog post.

“In order to upgrade, you need to have a qualifying license to upgrade from. Again, that’s why it is called an ‘upgrade,’” he added.

Source: Channel Web

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