Greg Keizer

Articles by Greg Keizer

Microsoft: Pay no attention to post-Vista plans

Don't expect the beta of Service Pack 1 to be released Monday. Redmond is too busy trying to quiet the blogosphere's buzz over a list of most-asked-for features to its OS's successor

Patch Tuesday report: 11 Microsoft bugs

The monthly security update includes fixes for problems with Windows, Office and the .Net Framework. The No. 1 priority? An Active Directory vulnerability that can be exploited without user interaction

Corporate users dump Microsoft’s Software Assurance

A Forrester Research analyst says long stretches between upgrades mean a quarter of customers won't renew their maintance contracts and another third are still deciding

Microsoft withholds support for GPLv3 software

As the latest version of a popular open source licence comes to light, the world's biggest software company says it will reject any applications that comply with it

Hydra-headed ‘Storm’ attack is brewing

No, that e-mail greeting card from a so-called family member is not safe to open. Symantec and others send out a warning about the latest online exploit

Google asks court to enforce Vista Search changes

It's called a "friend of the court" brief, but the search engine giant was making no friends in Redmond by requesting a judge to oversee Microsoft's compliance with an antitrust deal it struck last week

Nigerian scammers do a take-off on Three Kings

A twist on the classic Nigerian e-mail scam that steals from the plot of the George Clooney movie Three Kings is hitting in-boxes, Symantec Corp. said Monday.

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