Mary Jo Foley: "Pink" is a set of consumer-focused premium services that Roz Ho and her merry band are prepping for Windows Mobile. (”Rouge” is the unified-communications/business equivalent of Pink.)
While Windows Mobile 7 is delayed, according to News.com as well as at least one of my sources, Pink isn’t necessarily so. Pink is not tied to Windows Mobile 7, I hear. Microsoft could make Zune services and various other service offerings developed by the folks it acquired as part of the Danger acquisition, any time.
View Full Article: Mary Jo Foley's Blog
Zune services on Win Mobile = 'Pink'
Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud
Microsoft Corp. this year rolled out Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in a push to expand its presence in the corporate data center. To be successful, the company must overcome a challenging economic environment as well as tough competition from rivals Oracle Corp. and VMware, among others.
Rob Kelly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing, sat down with the IDG News Service to discuss the adoption rate of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft's plans for cloud-based services and the recent declaration by Paul Maritz, an ex-Microsoft executive and current president and CEO of VMware, that the traditional server operating system "has all but disappeared."
What follows is an edited transcript of that interview...
View Full Article: Computerworld
Kuwait Issues Order To Block YouTube
Bashar Abdullah writes "Kuwait Ministry of Communications have issued orders to all ISPs to block YouTube, after some offensive videos to Quran and prophet were posted there. YouTube is 15% of Kuwaiti traffic, ranked #3 on Alexa for Kuwait. Funny thing is, those videos they refer to have been removed and I can't reach them anymore."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
A Windows CE Shell For Netbooks
Netbooks such as the Acer Aspire One and Lenovo Ideapad S9 usually ship with SSD storage and the Linux operating system in low-end configurations, or else with hard drives and Windows XP Home at the higher end of the market. Therefore, customers who want a "Windows experience" have no choice but to shell out for extra RAM and disk storage, potentially impacting battery life. Perhaps not for long. Quarta Mobile says its open-source (yes, open source) "MID-Shell for Windows Embedded CE 6.0" provides a Microsoft-based alternative to Linux for low-end devices with SSDs (solid state disks)."
News Source: Slashdot
Where do new iPods leave Zune?
Ina Fried: With Apple's iPod announcements largely out there, I thought it made sense to see how Microsoft's new Zune lineup stacks up.
The good news for Microsoft is that its Zunes are priced right in line with Apple's new iPod Nano and iPod Classic line. From either company, a 120GB hard drive player fetches $249, a 16GB flash model sells for $199, and an 8GB flash model will sell for $149.
View Full Article: CNET News
First look: Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2
Mozilla has officially announced the availability of the second Firefox 3.1 alpha. This release includes support for the highly-anticipated HTML 5 "video" element and a handful of other features that move the browser forward.
Mozilla has been planning the 3.1 roadmap since before the launch of Firefox 3. Version 3.1 is expected to provide a strong incremental improvement and will include many of the features that were deferred for various reasons during the 3.0 development cycle. The developers are refining the user interface for tabs and tagging and are also working on on important backend improvements to boost compatibility with emerging web standards like CSS 3 and HTML 5.
View Full Article: Ars Technica
How To: Detect Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities using XSSDetect
Last time we saw how to fix a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This time we look at how we can detect cross site scripting vulnerabilities using automated tools. Being the most common vulnerability found in web applications, it is very important to detect and mitigate XSS vulnerabilities early in development cycle. Arming developers with the right tools to develop application security is a big problem in every enterprise. Here at Microsoft, we have developed a static analysis tool specifically aimed at developers to detect cross site scripting. It was released a while ago as Microsoft XSSDetect.
View Full Article: MSDN Blogs
Piecing together Microsoft's cloud-computing vision
The term “cloud computing” has become almost meaningless — being used synonymously for everything from software-as-a-service (SaaS), to platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
But a new white paper, sponsored by Microsoft and written by the always entertaining consultant David Chappell, provides more clues aboutwhat the Softies are planning to unveil at this October’s Professional Developers Conference. For anyone looking to understand how and where Red Dog, Zurich, BizTalk Services and SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) all fit together, the 13-pager is worth a read.
View Full Article: Mary Jo Foley's Blog
Microsoft Chief Security Officer chats about safety and the social Web
Bret Arsenault knows about security.
Before he was Microsoft's Chief Security Officer, he worked extensively on the creation of the Microsoft Security Risk Assessment (MSRA) methodology, which is a standardized framework to assess and provide guidance to Microsoft customers on their security risk.
With Microsoft since 1990, Arsenault has been integrally involved in the development of Microsoft's U.S. Emergency Response Plan, the Worldwide Security Mobilization effort, and the Trustworthy Computing Task Force.
Watch this video to hear Bret talk about his personal experiences teaching his friends and family how to navigate the social Web, with a focus on social networking Web sites.
News Source: MSDN Blogs
MPAA: Don't limit our ability to close analog outputs
The Motion Picture Association of America took its crusade for selectable output control (SOC) to the next level on Thursday, responding to critics in the FCC's proceeding on the matter. The MPAA's July 31 filing takes particular exception to suggestions that the agency lift its prohibition on SOC on a two-year trial basis, and makes it clear that the group won't take kindly to other limitations, either. If consumers want to see movies on TV earlier than they appear on DVD, the MPAA says, they had better be willing to allow movie studios to remotely shut down some cable box outputs.
View Full Article: Ars Technica
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