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Microsoft Cites Lack Of Training For Missing Critical IE Bug
Microsoft researchers said that they overlooked a critical Internet Explorer bug because of inadequate processes and training that would have allowed them to detect the source of the error.
Microsoft released an emergency, out-of-band security patch last week repairing a critical error affecting the IE [...]

Microsoft to cut time search data held

MICROSOFT SAID yesterday that it will cut the amount of time it retains Internet users’ search data to six months from 18 if other web search giants agree to do so too.
Search outfits are under pressure from the European Union to reduce the amount of time that they keep users’ personal identifying data. It claims [...]

Move over, Ajax. Here comes Microsoft’s ‘Kojax’

Let me start out by saying I don’t know whether Microsoft will finally decide to sell a Microsoft-branded Windows Mobile phone. (Company officials have gone back and forth over that idea for more than a year.) But I do know that the Softies have some other interesting phone-related developments in the works.
I’m not talking about [...]

Microsoft Plans Free Software To Shield PCs

Microsoft Corp. said it will offer free software to protect PCs from viruses, in a move that could pose new challenges for independent makers of security software.
The Redmond, Wash., company said it plans to introduce its security software, code-named Morro, during the second half of next year in an effort to persuade more users to [...]