TameBear: Microsoft WatchKeeping an eye on monopoly power in the software industry. A TameBear weblog.(Untitled)- June 13, 2006 Stats Shed Light on Malware Infections: Microsoft's anti-virus "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool" has removed 16 million viruses and trojans from 5.7 million Windows PCs during its first 15 months of operation. That's more than three instances per computer. Stats from use of the tool present a new perspective on how bad the Windows malware problem really is. The Registerhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/microsoftWatch/2006/06/13.html#a785 (Untitled)- June 4, 2006 Microsoft Strips Adobe PDF from Office 2007: Here's a major dustup over the "Portable Document Format" (PDF) invented by Adobe and made freely available to all software vendors that want to use it. Microsoft got into trouble because of their penchant for "embrace and extend" -- they wanted PDF in Office 2007 alongside their own rival "XPS" work-alike product, which in Adobe's view threatened to steal marketshare from PDF. By comparison, for nearly five years PDF has been an integral part of...http://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/microsoftWatch/2006/06/04.html#a782 |