● 03.25.09

●● Eye on Microsoft: Advertising, Vista 7, and Conficker

Posted in Microsoft, Security, Vista 7, Windows at 4:05 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Some quick links to news of interest about Microsoft

Microsoft Underwhelms With Preview Of Futuristic Ad Technologies

Call us crazy, but isn’t the point of a public demo to generate excitement?

Windows 7: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

It’s as if someone took a collection of day-glow spray paint cans and just sort of splattered the thing. Ugh! Truly horrible looking.

April Fools’ Day is no joke to Windows: Conficker to Phone Home on April Fools’ Day

Symantec Corp.’s Vincent Weafer, vice president of the company’s security response group, agreed with Stewart that it’s impossible to know ahead of time what stunt Conficker’s controllers will pull next week. “Nobody has any real idea,” said Weafer. “There’s no indication of what it will do April 1.”[...]Conficker, which is also called Downadup by some security companies, first appeared late last year, and originally exploited a Windows vulnerability that Microsoft Corp. patched in an October 2008 emergency update. In early 2009, the next version — Conficker.b — infected millions of PCs in just a few days.

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