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Comment Re:I'll believe it when I see it... (Score 1) 219

by nberardi on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @10:37AM (#29669767) Attached to: Microsoft, EU Reach Antitrust Accord

Agreed. The agreement between the EU and Microsoft states that they just have to provide all the same API's publically that they use internally. There is nothing about legacy support.

White House Specifies And Mandates Secure Windows 242

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 23, 2007 @10:51AM from the on-the-up-and-up dept.

twitter writes "The Register is reporting on an effort to bring order to the wild world of Windows patching, at least in the US Federal Government. The White House has issued a directive to federal CIOs throughout the country, issuing a call for all new PCs to use a 'common secure configuration.' 'Registry settings and which services would be turned on or off by default [are specified and] the directive calls for suppliers (integrators and software vendors) to certify that the products they supply operate effectively using these more secure configurations. "No Vista application will be able to be sold to federal agencies if the application does not run on the secure version of Vista," explained Alan Paller, director of research at The SANS Institute.'"

Seamonkey 1.1 Released 143

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 19, 2007 @10:56AM from the release-the-seamonkies-of-doom dept.

stuuf writes "Version 1.1 of the Seamonkey Internet Application Suite is now available, with quite a few improvements over the 1.0 series. Some of the new features include spell checking in form text areas, a new tagging system to classify email, a better indicator for secure web sites and preview images for browser tabs. This release also includes many of the updates that have gone into the Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2 branches. Check out the release notes and download page for more."

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