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Submission + - Bill Gates lays down the guantlet

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An anonymous reader writes: In an interview on MSNBC, Bill Gates said

I mean, it's fascinating, maybe we shouldn't have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done. Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.


Sure sounds like a challenge to me. Will he rue the day he spoke those workds? How long until the first Vista exploit?
Microsoft

Submission + - ODF plugin for Microsoft Word released

Submitted by Sputnikmeister
Sputnikmeister writes: Just as Microsoft Office 2007 hits the retail shelves, the Open XML Translater plugin allowing Microsoft Word 2007 to work with documents created by OpenOffice has been released. It's a big concession by Microsoft to the open standards movement and a major boost for OpenOffice's efforts to break into the workplace.
Power

Submission + - British PM's PC hacked...

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Xemu
Xemu writes: "British Prime Minister Tony Blair's computers have been "hacked" by London law enforcement to find evidence of party political corruption. The police "hacked" the PCs because they were deeply frustrated by the "very slim" pile of documents that they received after it twice asked the administration for all emails, letters and other material relating to the system of awarding seats in Britain's unelected upper chamber of parliament, the House of Lords, in return for financial support."

IceWeasel — Why Closed Source Wins 551

Posted by kdawson from the some-say-the-world-will-end-in-fire dept.
engtech writes, "There's been some hype about the Debian fork of FireFox called IceWeasel. Politics aside, this is a bad idea because it fragments the user base, divides the focus, and opens the path for Microsoft and Internet Explorer 7 to regain marketshare."

Apple Sues Creative 340

Posted by Zonk from the tit-for-litigious-tat dept.
boarder8925 writes "Apple is counter-suing Creative, claiming it has infringed 'four patents in its handheld digital players.' The suit was filed the same day that Creative filed suit against Apple. 'Creative proactively held discussions with Apple in our efforts to explore amicable solutions,' a spokesman for Creative said. 'At no time during these discussions or at any other time did Apple mention to us the patents it raised in its lawsuit.'"

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