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Mar
13
2006

IE 7 – Another big YAWN from Microsoft

Well Iâ€™ve had the time to sit down and finally play with IE 7 (beta) and what
Iâ€™ve scene so far doesnâ€™t give the brother that "warm-n-fuzzy" it used to. Donâ€™t
get me wrong the new tabbed browsing (borrowed from FireFox) is nice and the
anti-Phishing Filter will make surfing the web a little more safe for users, but
what really bothers me is they did a huge change to the UI of the browser
itself. The home button has moved to the bottom right, and there is no "menu"
tool bar anymore. The changes are drastic (home button now on the bottom right)
and don’t seem to have any reason that I can discern. Maybe it’s part of the
overall move to the "Fisher Price’s My First Operating System" look and feel
they started with XP and will continue to change in Vista. All I know is it will
only serve to frustrate people who already find computers difficult.

Some advice for Microsoftâ€¦ leave the IE interface alone, or at least put a "back
to classic interface" option like you did for XP.

Download a copy for your self and check out what I mean (hey…misery LOVES
company):

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.msp

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Apr
11
2005

Critical Micro$oft patches out tomorrow…

Micro$oft Corp. on plans to issue eight security alerts with patches, some
critical, for Windows, Office, MSN Messenger and Exchange tomorrow (4/12/05).

Five of the security bulletins are for the O/S, and at least one of those is
deemed critical, Micro$oft said in a notice posted to its Web site. Office, MSN
Messenger and Exchange will get one bulletin each, all deemed critical, the
company said.

In Micro$oft’s rating system for security issues, vulnerabilities that could
allow a malicious Internet worm to spread without any action required on the
part of the user are rated critical.

Micro$oft gave no further information, other than that some of the patches for
Windoze will require restarting patched computers, as may the MSN Messenger
patch. The fixes for Office and Exchange won’t require users to restart the
applications.

The software maker provides information in advance of its monthly patch-release
day, every second Tuesday of the month, so users can prepare. Last month,
Microsoft didn’t release any patches after releasing a dozen security bulletins
in February.

In addition to the patches, Micro$oft on Tuesday through Windoze Update plans to
release an updated version of the Windoze Malicious Software Removal Tool and
two "high priority" updates for Windoze that aren’t related to security issues,
the company said.

The Malicious Software Removal Tool detects and removes malicious code placed on
computers.

More on this or any other future updates can be found at:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/advance.mspx

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