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In an effort to show its support for the development of woman-owned small businesses across the United States, Microsoft announced a $150,000 software donation for the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council. Through the voice of Tami Reller, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Business Division at Microsoft, the company presented the donation to the WBENC, emphasizing the backup for the liberalization of the market and the elimination of impediments for businesses led by women. "As WBENC enters its second decade of operation, we understand the important role technology plays in the success of our organization to address the needs of woman-owned businesses across America," said Linda Denny, president of WBENC. "As a result of Microsoft’s generosity, WBENC and our 14 organizational partners will have the technology necessary to enhance our wide array of programs that range from providing a national standard of certification for woman-owned businesses to providing our corporate members and certified women’s business enterprises with better access to our programs."Microsoft informed that the $150,000 software donation will find its way into all aspects of the WBENC activity in 2008. The additional resources courtesy of the Redmond company will be implemented in the development of WBENC. Microsoft is of course a company well known for its involvement in a multitude of projects created to promote equal opportunities across various barriers from poverty to prejudice. The Microsoft donation is synonymous with WBENC’s eighth national conference. Continue At Source
Microsoft is moving Kirill Tatarinov, currently the head of its Management and Solutions unit, to lead the Microsoft Business Solutions business.
The MBS team, which oversees the Microsoft Dynamics ERP/CRM family of products, had been searching for a new chief since March, when Microsoft moved Satya Nadella from MBS to head up the newly combined Live Search/adCenter business.
Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) is part of Microsoft’s larger Microsoft Business Division, which encompass Microsoft Office, SharePoint Server and Microsoft’s unified-communications products.
Tatarinov is a five year Microsoft veteran . Before Microsoft, Tatarinov was Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for BMC software.
No word yet on who will replace Tatarinov on Microsoft’s systems-management side of the business; a search is underway.
A hacker successfully defaced a page on Microsoft Corp.'s U.K. Web site on Wednesday, resulting in the display of several images, including a photograph of a child waving the flag of Saudi Arabia.
Roger Halbheer, Microsoft's chief security advisor in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said today that the security hole used in the attack has since been closed. But, he said, it was "unfortunate" that the U.K. site was vulnerable in the first place.
The hacker, who posted his name as "rEmOtEr," used a SQL injection attack to exploit a programming snafu and gain unauthorized access to a database that supports the Web site, Halbheer said. The site takes SQL queries embedded in URLs and passes them to the database, he explained. By embedding a query of an unexpected form into the address for a particular Web page, the hacker prompted the server to return error messages, Halbheer said.
From such error messages, an attacker can get an idea of how a database is structured and refine a query so that the database will process it as an instruction to insert, instead of retrieve, data. In Microsoft's case, Halbheer said, the hacker eventually found the right combination and inserted a link to an external Web site into the database.
When users accessed the Web page on Microsoft's site, the database downloaded two photos and a graphic from the external site. A screenshot of the defacement was posted on the Zone-H.org Web site, which tracks hacked sites.
Finally, another version of SQL Server 2008 has been launched and is available for download.
Here's a few links which i think you may find useful:
SQL Server 2008 Product Overview white paper
Official SQL Server 2008 Home page
SQL Server 2008 CTP3 Download page
The Microsoft code name “Acropolis” Community Technology Preview 1 is a set of components and tools that make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications. Acropolis is part of the “.NET Client Futures” wave of releases, our preview of upcoming technologies for Windows client development.
Acropolis builds on the rich capabilities of Microsoft Windows and the .NET Framework, including Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), by providing tools and pre-built components that help developers quickly assemble applications from loosely-coupled parts and services. With Acropolis you will be able to:
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Microsoft rolled out on June 28 the third rollup of fixes for Exchange Server 2007, a product introduced in December 2006.
According to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article on Rollup 3, Microsoft has fixed a number of Exchange issues, including:
eWEEK is reporting that the new Exchange Server 2007 Rollup 3 also will fix a supposed incompatibility between the IMAP version 4 and Exchange Server 2007 that could affect iPhone customers attempting to use IMAP to sync with Exchange. eWEEK says:“The update is expected to address many issues Exchange Server 2007 users have been having, including with Mac Mail and the fact that when the access their mailboxes on an Exchange Server 2007 server, certain IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) clients cannot open the bodies of the e-mail messages, which trigger error messages.”Continue At Source
Microsoft has made no secret about the fact it has designs on being a healthcare-IT contender. But what the company has kept under wraps, at least until now, was what it planned to do on the consumer side of the healthcare space.
Sure, there’ve been hints here and there that Microsoft was readying some kind of “Windows Live Healthcare” offering. And it’s not a huge surprise that Microsoft would be considering some kind of consumer-facing offering, given that Microsoft rival Google and AOL Founder Steve Case’s Revolution Health are rushing headlong into the patient-information world.
Microsoft is, indeed, readying a consumer healthcare platform, confirmed Steve Shihadeh, General Manager for Sales, Marketing and Solutions with Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group.
“We are focused on both the enterprise and consumer space,” Shihadeh said, during a meeting we had in New York this week. Healthcare isn’t just another vertical market to Microsoft. Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group has over 600 employees in sales, marketing and product development. (There are 13 physicians on staff, as well.) Health Sciences is an incubation project that falls under Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie’s domain.
Products already known to be part of Microsoft Health Solutions’ purview are the Medstory medical Web-search engine that Microsoft bought in February, and Azyxxi, an integrated “health intelligence” system that Microsoft acquired in July 2006.
Microsoft is looking to Medstory to allow users to conduct and save searches via which they will be able to “build a personal health record,” Shihadeh explained.
In a case of sharing competitive resources, IBM on Thursday said it is offering Microsoft's Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003 for it System Cluster 1350 server, a move expected to appeal to midmarket companies looking for a high-performance computing system.
While IBM has its own middleware, the advantage of the Microsoft software, according to IBM, is that it provides a familiar operating interface, thereby reducing training costs. In addition, IBM expanded the server, storage, and networking options for its System Cluster 1350.
High-performance cluster systems range from a few to thousands of severs woven together to act as one computer. IBM's latest offering targets the midmarket in life sciences, computer-aided engineering, and financial services.
Options available with the Microsoft Cluster Server-based system include IBM BladeCenter and System x servers, which feature multicore and dual-core process from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. IBM is also offering as an option its System Storage and Ethernet and InfiniBand switches from Cisco Systems, SMC and Voltaire.
Pricing for the latest cluster system will depend upon the configuration, IBM said.Continue At Source
Another sign of Sony’s sinking fortunes came out last week, when the Japanese hardware sales chart showed that the Xbox 360 was gaining on it. The 360, which has virtually no base in Japan, shot up by tripling its normal sales to a point that, while 1/8 the Nintendo Wii and 1/12 the Nintendo DS, was within spitting distance of the PS3’s sales. The Xbox 360 tripled its way to 7,583 sales for the week, while the PS3 lumbered at 9,481 sales.
While no one is saying this means the 360 is taking over Japan, it is a sure sign of Sony’s sinking fortunes. The gamers who might normally buy a PlayStation must not be interested, and are putting their dollars into a console that is cheaper, has more games, and isn’t looking like more of a failure every month.