Another busy week in tech here are some of the highlights from the week.
Micro-hoo or Yah-Soft? - Looks likes there is some renwed intrest on the part Micorosft on a potential takeover bid of Yahoo! Rumored to be in the ballpark of 50 billion...holy cow! I do think there could be some synergy here and they would get some cool products out of the deal like Flikr, but not sure I get all of the goings on. I guess that is one way to get some market share for your search and ads? In semi related news Yahoo landed a deal with Comcast for ads. Maybe they (Microsoft) should just focus on Windows and Office? or is the writing on the wall that ads are the only real way to make money? I'm sceptical.
Digg Revolts - The digg community showed how powerful its voice can be this week. After digg mods removed a post that had a HD-DVD key, users revolted essentially making the site useless by taking over the homepage with similar things. Kevin and company are now saying it won't happen again....wow, wish we would get this kinds of action in our political system. Maybe we need a digg clone for politics? submit legislation and vote on it those that get the most "votes" become laws..nah that wouldn't work, its too easy. I do agree with Robert's comments about the ordeal too though...so tough call. Glad I didn't have to make it.
Mix a hit? - There were sure some impressive demos off of the visit mix page about silverlight, if you haven't checked them out you probalby should. Some very cool things possibly coming soon from some high profile partners (CBS, MLB, Etc). It looks like there is a lot more buzz and excitement about this then I would have anticipated coming into it. Congrats to those guys, and way to go Microsoft! Oh, and there were some hints at IE8 after all.
WSUS RTM - it did get much fan fare, but WSUS 3.0 RTM'd earlier this week. Our own MVP Jeff has some details and will be doing a review.
Patch Tuesday coming - Next week is the infamous patch Tuesday, yet again. Remeber when people used to just ignore these...ahh those were the days. Anyway here is what to expect from the advanced notice page.
On Tuesday 8 May 2007 Microsoft is planning to release:
Security Updates
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Two Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will require a restart. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. |
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Three Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Office. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates may require a restart. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. |
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One Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft Exchange. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will not require a restart. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. |
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One Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting CAPICOM and BizTalk. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will not require a restart. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool. |
Supersite Longhorn Beta3 Review - Paul has his review of longhorn beta3 posted, pretty good read...check it out.
ISA Server 2004 SP3 - ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 3 (SP3) provides the latest updates for ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition.
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May 04 2007, 09:42 AM
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Josh Phillips
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