Pox Party

It was hectic weekend. I was feeling feverish, but still had to setup LCD projector for our doctor’s association meeting. Hurriedly reached the site at 7.45PM. The hall was frozen with extremely low temperature on Air conditioner. Some how managed to setup everything and participated in the meeting and came home at 10PM. When I … Read more

Fake login pages fool Browsers

Mozilla’s Firefox 2 and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords. Dubbed a reverse cross-site request, or RCSR, vulnerability by its discoverer, Robert Chapin, the flaw lets hackers compromise users’ passwords and usernames by presenting them with a fake login form. Firefox Password Manager will automatically … Read more

No kill switch in Office 2007 – Microsoft says

Reports that Office 2007 will sport an anti-piracy “kill switch” that can disable the upcoming application suite after it’s activated are incorrect, a Microsoft executive said Monday. As with previous versions of the productivity bundle, Office 2007 does include an activation scheme that requires users to authenticate the product key either online or by telephone, … Read more

Windows PowerShell 1.0 released

One of the technology which did not make it to Windows Vista Final was released separately on first day of IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain. Bob Muglia in his keynote address announced the release of Windows PowerShell 1.0 (known previously as project Monad) today as a free download. Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell … Read more

Office 2007 Professional on MSDN

Office 2007 Professional has just been made available for MSDN Subscribers. Office Professional 2007 includes the following Microsoft Office system programs: Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 and Microsoft Office Word 2007. Additionally the following applications have … Read more