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Legitimate 'rootkits' soften Vista security
Windows Vista will be better equipped to protect itself from malicious rootkits than its predecessor, Windows XP, but because so many "legitimate" applications use rootkit techniques, Microsoft has decided to implement two crucial anti-rootkit technologies only in 64-bit versions of its new operating system. Read more »
Microsoft admits to Vista flaw
Microsoft is investigating a security vulnerability which affects Vista, its newly launched operating system. Read more »
IE 7 bugs abound
People didn't lose any time in finding bugs in the latest preview release of Internet Explorer 7. Read more »
Windows Vista tool targeted by virus writers
Virus writers have published what are thought to be the first examples of malicious code targeting an expected feature of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, around a week after the first beta of the next-generation operating system was released. Read more »
Ballmer calls security a never-ending battle
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the task of trying to stay one step ahead of virus writers and hackers is a never-ending battle. Read more »
Five years of Ballmer--the effect on Microsoft
In the five years since Bill Gates surprised the technology world by announcing he would give up his title as chief executive at Microsoft, has the company changed? Read more »
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Jim Allchin on Microsoft's Vista
Windows chief Jim Allchin talks about the challenges ahead and how the new OS might help conserve electricty. Read more »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the visionA successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
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