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Microsoft made available for download on August 24 the updated Internet Explorer patch that originally was slated to go out on August 22. This is a patch for individuals running IE 6.0 Service Pack 1 and will fix the new vulnerability introduced by the Patch Tuesday IE patch that was part of security bulletin MS06-042.

From Microsoft Watch: There’s a new test build of Internet Explorer 7 ready to roll. Microsoft is making available to any interested parties on August 24 the Release Candidate (RC) 1 IE 7 bits for download. There’s a chance this is going to be the last public test build of IE before Microsoft releases the […]

Microsoft is said to be readying a total of four new versions of Windows XP for the South Korean market, in order to comply with an antitrust against the company there. There will be versions of XP Home Edition and XP Professional Edition that remove Windows Media Player and Windows Messenger. There also will be […]

Still worried that Microsoft might not get Office 2007 out the door before the end of calendar 2006? Darren Strange, a product manager for Office, based in the UK, says Microsoft is on track to add Office 2007 to the field-sales price list as of November 2006. “An internal email from Chris Capposela (head of […]

Windows Watch: This Week in Vista (and Longhorn) Land: Where the heck is the next Vista build? And what’s up with Longhorn Server? Inquiring minds ask; we answer. More SNAPs in the Sandbox: The Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) team ahs been busy. New Custom Journal and Custom Report Generator snap-ins are now part of the […]

Microsoft quietly has begun beta testing the Windows Live WiFi suite that the LiveSide.Net folks discovered back in May. The Windows Live Connection Center WiFi beta is now open. The latest Windows Live service includes a WiFi client, as well as a hot-spot locator. No word on when Microsoft hopes to release the final Live […]

Microsoft was on tap to fix on August 22 an Internet Explorer patch it issued on August 8, last Patch Tuesday. But now, it’s uncertain when and if Microsoft will repatch the IE patch. Microsoft is citing software distribution problems involving corporate patching systems for the postponement. Meanwhile, making matters worse, the original IE patch […]

After some uncertainty last week as to whether a viral-marketing Web site promising new Microsoft-Razer gaming peripherals was real or not, the answer is in. On August 23, Microsoft and Razer announced a new gaming mouse, the Microsoft Habu, will be available in October for $69.95. Microsoft and Razer have at least one other new […]

It’s time for Microsoft to put its software where its mouth has been. Late last year, an individual with connections to the open-source community submitted one of Microsoft’s Shared Source licenses to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval as an OSI-sanctioned open-source license. The license submitter, John Cowan, was not a Microsoft employee. At […]

You can lead a closed horse source to water, but you can’t make it drink. That’s the lesson from the latest back-and-forth between Microsoft and the Open Source Initiative. An individual not working for Microsoft took the liberty of submitting one of Microsoft’s Shared Source licenses for OSI-approval. Microsoft immediately put the kibosh on the […]