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Microsoft FAM 2010, Part 1: Microsoft’s Consumer Initiatives
If you don't follow Microsoft closely, you may be surprised to discover that its annual one-day meeting with financial analysts, called the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting, or FAM, has traditionally been a day of interesting revelations. This year's event happened yesterday, and while you could pour over all the speech transcripts and videos... »
MS10-045 - Important: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Outlook Could Allow Remote Code Execution (978212)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opened an attachment in a specially crafted e-mail message using an affected version of Microsoft Office Outlook. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the... »
MS10-044 - Critical: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Access ActiveX Controls Could Allow Remote Code Execution (982335)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Access ActiveX Controls. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opened a specially crafted Office file or viewed a Web page that instantiated Access ActiveX controls »
MS10-043 - Critical: Vulnerability in Canonical Display Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2032276)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll). Although it is possible that the vulnerability could allow code execution, successful code execution is unlikely due to memory randomization. In most scenarios, it is much more likely that an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability... »
Xbox Live: Over $1.2 Billion in Revenues This Year, Half of Subscribers Now Pay
So this is arguably big news. In the past, Microsoft was pretty cagey about the percentage of Xbox Live subscribers that were paying, "Gold"-level members. (The free version is called Xbox Live Silver.) The consensus was that the vast majority were, in fact, not paying »
Microsoft uncharacteristically honest about games line-up
Meanwhile, Microsoft rings in the summer with an extensive list of downloadable games announced as follows: Summer is officially here, and Xbox LIVE is bringing the heat with sizzling deals, summery duds and hot new hits! It's quite a list and you can see it here . »
What an Activision CEO will never say: it’s our own fault
From an interview with Dean Takahashi at Venture Beat , Activision CEO Bobby Kotick had this to say: My belief is we should not blame the bad economy for the cause of slow sales of video games. The slow sales must be due to the lack of great software that everyone wants to... »
Why you should be excited about True Crime: Hong Kong
True Crime: Hong Kong doesn't exactly come from a long line of good open-world games. Activision's Grand Theft Auto clones visited Los Angeles and New York, and then all but vanished. I suspect they make frequent appearances in bargain bins, where you might pull them out to have a laugh before putting them... »
Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Facts and Figures
As part of the marketing push for the new ("wave 4") Windows Live Essentials, Microsoft has provided some interesting facts and figures that justify, I suppose, the feature push here. They are: Worldwide, Messenger alone has 9 percent of total Internet minutes , compared to Facebook with 7.4 percent. »
The ten most awesome things at E3
Contrary to what I expected from the press conferences, this year's E3 was full of exciting announcements and strong titles. Despite Sony's misguided emphasis on 3D, Microsoft's clumsy Project Kinnect, and Nintendo's blatant play to nostalgia, the Big Three had plenty worth seeing. The other larger publishers rolled out their usual suspects, but... »