Gates to announce Windows update tool
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Tuesday is expected to detail the company&#39;s plan for computer management software and announce a long-awaited Windows update tool.
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(InfoWorld) - After handling 19 sets of patches inÂ JulyÂ andÂ August, system administrators will catch a bit of a break next week when Microsoft Corp. is expected to release just three security updates for its Windows and Office products. On Thursday, Microsoft said that only one of these updates, for Office, is rated as critical. The updates will be released Tuesday in line with Microsoft's monthly patch release schedule. Microsoft'sÂ advance notification on the updatesÂ can be found at its Web site. The other two updates, which fix problems with Windows, are rated no higher than Important, meaning that user action would be required before an attack based on these flaws could succeed. As usual, Microsoft did not release any further details on the patches. That information will be divulged when the patches are made available Tuesday. But the company may be planning to patch aÂ recently reported flaw in its Word 2000 software. Earlier this week Symantec Corp. warned that the flaw was being exploited by attackers to run unauthorized software on a victim's computer. Â
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Microsoft has promised to give advance notice of its monthly security updates to customers to help them prepare to install related software patches.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said the next version of Microsoft Office will give users new ways to access their applications online.
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Microsoft plans to ship the first feature update to Windows Home Server "sometime this spring," says an exec. But there was no word on when the company will patch a data corruption bug.
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Microsoft says it plans to broadly release the long-awaited update to its flagship Windows operating system, dubbed &#39;Longhorn&#39;, in 2006.
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update In order to get the next update of its Windows operating system out the door, Microsoft will delay some of the key improvements that had been planned.
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Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it would release new versions of Windows in South Korea this week to comply with an antitrust ruling against the U.S. software company.
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Microsoft plans to release three security updates for Windows and Office next Tuesday. One of these is rated critical.
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WASHINGTON : Microsoft said it plans to broadly release the long-awaited update to its flagship Windows operating system, dubbed &quot;Longhorn,&quot; in 2006.
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Windows XP users with Automatic Update enabled will have a rather hefty download tomorrow (August 25), as Microsoft plans to release Service Pack 2 for Windows XP via Automatic Update.
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The Microsoft Corp. has decided to advance the timetable on its much-anticipated overhaul of Windows, the Financial Times reported Saturday.
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Microsoft Corp.  will release a new version of Internet Explorer, the world's most popular Internet browsing software, with new, built-in security features, Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday.
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Microsoft&#39;s channel partners are getting set to put out fires when Windows XP Service Pack 2 becomes available to consumers over the Windows Update service on Wednesday.
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Microsoft Corp.  will release a new version of Internet Explorer, the world's most widely used Web browsing software, with stronger, built-in security features, chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday.
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To get next version of Windows out on time, company to delay some planned features, sources say.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked publicly for the first time on Monday about the next big Office release, code-named Office 14, which he said will give users new ways to access their applications online.Microsoft won&#39;t provide the full functionality of Office online, but it will offer limited capabilities to view and edit the data in Office applications. It already does this for its Outlook e-mail client with a product called Outlook Web Access, and it will offer similar capabilities for other applications in Office 14, Gates said in a speech at the Microsoft Office System Developer Conference in San Jose, California.&quot;Outlook Web Access is not the full version of Office, but if you want to go into a kiosk or an Internet cafe and browse and connect, it gives you plenty of functionality,&quot; he said. &quot;As we look at all the modules [in Office 14], we have in mind the equivalent of Outlook Web Access,&quot; Gates said.It was the first time Microsoft had confirmed the &quot;Office 14&quot; moniker for the next release, although the Windows enthusiast Web site AeroXperience reported that fact recently, citing an internal Microsoft document. It also reported that a beta of Office 14 would appear this year with commercial release planned for 2009.Gates offered no timeline Monday and addressed Office 14 only briefly at the end of his speech, which focused on how developers can extend the current version of Office. He was answering a question from a developer in the audience who asked when Microsoft would provide full online access for Office in the same way Google does for its Google Apps service.&quot;There are lots of ways I can get to your Office data, but nothing compares to Google,&quot; the developer said.Google Apps is used mostly by smaller businesses today, but it is seen as a potential competitor to Office despite having more limited functionality. Microsoft, which makes much of its profits from its Office desktop software, has been criticized for moving too slowly in getting the applications online.It will take another step in that direction with Office 14 by offering Outlook Web Access equivalents of other Office applications such as Excel. &quot;If you look at spreadsheets, maybe you&#39;ll not be able to set up all the data models [online], but you&#39;ll be able to read documents, change a few assumptions, and try things out,&quot; Gates said.Outlook Web Access is a part of Microsoft&#39;s Exchange Server 2007 software, and it was unclear how the other Office 14 applications would be packaged and delivered. Gates did say that SharePoint Server, which is becoming more closely aligned with Office, &quot;will be able to render a greater set of Office documents in an HTML environment.&quot;