Monday, October 12, 2009

Patch Tuesday and Office Suite News

Monster Patch Tuesday on tap: 13 bulletins, 34 vulnerabilities

Microsoft is planning a bumper Patch Tuesday next week — 13 bulletins covering 34 security vulnerabilities in a wide range of products. Eight of the 13 bulletins will be rated “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating.

Adobe exploit puts backdoor on computers

A new zero-day exploit targeting Adobe Reader, as well as 9.1.3 and earlier versions of Adobe Systems' Acrobat, drops a backdoor onto computers using JavaScript. The best solution is replace Reader with Foxit Reader.

Microsoft to put stripped-down Office on new PCs

Microsoft will abandon its Works entry-level suite and instead offer for free Office Starter 2010, which includes Word and Excel but drops PowerPoint and OneNote.

Office suites in the cloud: Microsoft Office Web Apps versus Google Docs and Zoho

A spreadsheet in your browser? A word processor on the Web? These days, SaaS (software as a service) is all the rage, and the success of Web-based upstarts like Salesforce.com has sent vendors searching for ever more categories of software to bring online. This multi-page article gives you a critical comparative look at the Big 3 on-line office suites.

What Is Twittering - Twitter Explained (Free e-book)

What is Twitter? Well, where have you been? Twitter would have to be one of the fastest growing sites on the web today. It is taking the internet by storm and there are around 10,000 new users per day signing up to articipate in this internet revolution.

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