Microsoft Responds to EU on Trustee

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Microsoft responds to EU's trustee
concerns

Microsoft responds to EU's trustee
concerns 04/14/2005 01:54 PM
BRUSSELS -- Microsoft confirmed on Thursday that it had formally answered a request from the European Commission on the powers an independent trustee would have to monitor the company's compliance with conditions laid down in the antitrust ruling against the firm.

European Commission Rejects Microsoft
Proposal on Trustee

European Commission Rejects Microsoft
Proposal on Trustee 03/23/2005 05:00 PM
The issue is the latest in a series of problems delaying the enforcement of two orders handed out on March 24, 2004, in the ruling against Microsoft.

Microsoft Responds to IE Criticism

Microsoft Responds to IE Criticism 07/09/2004 12:05 PM

Microsoft responds to MyDoom Virus

Microsoft responds to MyDoom Virus 01/27/2004 06:21 PM

Microsoft Responds to Real Networks Suit

Microsoft Responds to Real Networks Suit 12/19/2003 01:18 PM

Microsoft Responds To Recent Xbox 2
Reports

Microsoft Responds To Recent Xbox 2
Reports 06/22/2004 03:48 PM
Microsoft says recent Xbox 2 rumors are simply speculation at this point. You may have read yesterday that a story originating on gamesindustry.biz claimed the next Xbox would not feature backwards compatibility due to the increased and varied technology of the latest system from Microsoft. Well, the boys from Redmond apparently aren't too happy about the initial claims and subsequent media barrage that has swirled all over the net in the past 24 hours.

Microsoft Responds to SP2 Security
Center Issue

Microsoft Responds to SP2 Security
Center Issue 08/27/2004 03:42 PM
Microsoft has responded to Neowin with regard to the XP SP 2 problem story we ran yesterday, as reported by PC Magazine & e-Week. The open letter is an unedited version of what we received early this morning.

Dear Neowin,

We wanted to alert you to some misguided press reports that may cause Microsoft customers undue concern. Some articles have posted that claim there is a highly critical vulnerability that would allow a malicious user to spoof the Windows Security Center in Windows XP SP2 however this claim is not accurate. we don’t know how closely you have been following this issue, but we wanted to make sure you had the facts from Microsoft.

As you know Windows Security Center, found in the Windows XP Control panel, provides customers the ability to easily check the status of essential security functionalities such as firewalls, automatic updates and antivirus. Windows Security Center will inform users whether key security capabilities are turned on and up to date and will notify users if it appears that updates need to be made or if additional action steps may need to be taken to help them get more secure.

To clarify, there is not a vulnerability in the Windows Security Center. In order for an attacker to spoof the Windows Security Center, he or she would have to have local administrator rights on the computer (ed. XP Homes default user is 'Admin', and many XP Pro users set their account to admin status for a hassle free life). If an attacker were granted access to a user’s system, either by being granted them or attaining them by enticing a user to open a malicious attachment, the criminal actions the attacker could pursue include many that are far more serious than just spoofing the Windows Security Center. In Windows XP SP2, we have added functionality to reduce the likelihood of unknown applications from running on the user’s system including turning Windows Firewall on by default, Data Execution Prevention and Attachment Manager in Outlook Express, to name a few.

All the best,
Windows Community Team

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Tsunami update: Microsoft responds,
bl0ggers organize, video torrents

Tsunami update: Microsoft responds,
bl0ggers organize, video torrents 12/30/2004 04:48 PM
Xeni Jardin: A quick roundup of items related to the tsunami disaster. Image: mannequin in pile of wreckage in Thailand, shot by blogger and NBC correspondent Kevin Sites who is on assignment in Asia covering the story. (Link)

*Following up on a previous BoingBoing post, an anonymous Microsoft employee says:

Responding to this: "Reader J. Hahn says, "I am particularly impressed with Amazon.com's Red Cross donation counter that proves Americans are not 'stingy.' Also, as a Mac user, I was proud to go to the apple.com site and see not one product ad on their front page - just links to aid and donation sites, and Microsoft had not one mention of the disaster."

Most of Microsoft's efforts regarding Tsunami relief is focused internally. MS offers a dollar for dollar charitable donation match to all FTE, and is doing everything it can to expidite the process of trying to get the money to where it will do the most good.

* Tsunami Outreach: Bloggers Without Borders' first international project launched last night. Link (Thanks, Sean)

* BoingBoing reader Nicholas Bentley says,

"Hello Xeni, We thought you might be interested in passing on the news of one person's great efforts for tsunami relief. We wanted to donate to a tsunami relief effort with our funds in a PayPal account but had difficulty finding an agency that took PayPal. Eventually we found Kevin McDonald's site where he is doing a fantastic job of collecting PayPal contributions and passing them on to AmeriCares (AmeriCares disaster relief has a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator.) Kevin has even persuaded AmeriCare's webmaster to see about accepting PayPal transfers direct in the near future."

*BoingBoing reader Chris Cummer says,

Family members of a close personal friend of mine are still missing in Thailand. Her father and brother have flown there to try and find them, as this Globe and Mail article details, but the help of the blog community would also be greatly appreciated. I've posted a request for help on my blog at Mi ssing in Khao Lak, Thailand. Hopefully someone might have some information for a Canadian family that's been living on the edge of grief for five days now.

Related: see this "missing persons" wiki page (Link ), and a blog devoted to linking missing persons with their loved ones: Link. And the Red Cross has launched a "Family Links" web page where family members can search for missing relatives’ names: Link. "The information is not verified or tracked by either the ICRC or the American Red Cross but is offered by the ICRC as a stand-alone internet tool for inquirers to use on their own."

* Reader Roberto says, "Every year at this time, I empty my jar full of loose change. But this year I discovered I could donate to the Red Cross (among other charities including UNICEF) from a Coinstar machine at my drugstore. And big kid that I am, I had fun playing with the machine." Link.

* Reader Chris Holland says,

I stumbled upon Austin's Blog who's done a fine job of gathering more videos. So earthlink homepage servers don't get creamed, I've created this torrent gathering 5 of the videos from his blog that weren't already covered in the previous torrent which is still available here. Remember, the more people click those torrent links, the easier and faster it is for everybody else to download them too. And try to keep the torrent opened for as long as possible even after you're done downloading. Big Kudos to prodigem's very easy-to-use torrent service. Link

* Andy Carvin says,

I've just set up a tsunami news digest using the news aggregator Kinja.com. The page contains latest news feeds and first-person blogs related to the tsunami disaster from around the globe. I'd like to see others add their own tsunami-related feeds to the site. If you have a news feed or blog that's focusing on the tsunami, or are reading one that you'd like to add to the digest, please visit the website and log on with the following info: login: tsunami-info / password: southasia. Once you've logged in, you can add a news source to the digest by pasting it into the "Add a Favorite" form field in the right column. Or, you can follow this shortcut.

* Among the many first-person accounts appearing on blogs: Sanjiva is an IBM employee from Sri Lanka, who is trying to build information systems to aid in locating missing persons, and help with medical resource logistics. Link.

* Jesse Krembs, President of The Hacker Foundation, tells BoingBoing:

Some of the folks here at the hacker foundation are assembling some code to build a big PHP/MYSQL database for locating survivors and doing tracing. It's not up yet but it will be soon. SurvivorLocationAssis tance.org & suvivors.hackerfoundation. org will be the address. You can see a preview as we build it here. It's still very rough but functional even at very low bandwidth."

Link to related BoingBoing posts.

When you need to modify trustee rights

When you need to modify trustee rights 07/26/2004 12:38 PM
Back in the days of NetWare 3, I used two utilities - GRANT and REVOKE - to control file trustee rights over the short term. Actually, I used one of John Baird's utilities (link below) to create a list of trustee rights for files and folders and used that list with REVOKE when I wanted to keep people out so I could do a backup of a database, for example. I then would re-apply the rights using the list and GRANT.

FileWave announces Asset Trustee 6.6

FileWave announces Asset Trustee 6.6 04/28/2004 07:23 AM
FileWave today announced the release of its cross platform software and hardware Asset Inventory system, Asset Trustee 6.6...

Europe Refuses Microsoft's Plan for
Trustee

Europe Refuses Microsoft's Plan for
Trustee 03/23/2005 11:01 PM
The European Commission rejected restrictions that Microsoft wants to impose on a trustee who will police last year's antitrust ruling against the company.

FileWave Asset Trustee adds license
compliance reporting

FileWave Asset Trustee adds license
compliance reporting 04/28/2004 04:05 PM
Swiss developer FileWave has released Asset Trustee 6.6. The application helps IT staffs manage their hardware and software inventories, and the latest version adds cross-platform software compliance reporting. This new feature allows administrators to figure out if they've deployed more licenses than they're allowed or even if they've purchased more licenses than they really needed. Asset Trustee 6.6 gathers detailed license information from every laptop, desktop and server connected to the network, no matter which OS they're using, and generates reports from the data. The application runs in Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.

Boing Boing: Tsunami update: Microsoft
responds, bl0ggers organize, video
torrents

Boing Boing: Tsunami update: Microsoft
responds, bl0ggers organize, video
torrents 01/02/2005 12:46 AM
BoingBoing for their link as well

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Penn State trustee and RIAA lawyer
denies conflict of interests

Penn State trustee and RIAA lawyer
denies conflict of interests 11/11/2003 04:27 PM
Here's to you, Mr. Robinson

News: FileWave intros FileWave 2.0,
Asset Trustee 7.0

News: FileWave intros FileWave 2.0,
Asset Trustee 7.0 03/31/2005 11:36 PM
Swiss developer FileWave on Thursday released version 2.0 of its software distribution application FileWave as well as version 7.0 of its inventory software Asset Trustee. FileWave 2.0 features Patch Installer, which enables network administrators to automatically distribute operating system updates to all users, and Client Manager, which gives administrators the ability to create client groups. Client Manager can also import clients from such Directory systems as LDAP, Active and Open Directory, as well as from text files.

AutoZone Responds To SCO

AutoZone Responds To SCO 04/27/2004 11:54 AM

Apple Responds. Wow.

Apple Responds. Wow. 01/12/2003 11:46 PM
I'm terribly impressed with some of the folks at Apple. They get the power of weblogs in a very important way. Over in Dave Hyatt's weblog, he's been responding to various other weblog entries about their new Safari browser. For...

Informatica responds to IBM

Informatica responds to IBM 04/08/2005 10:08 AM
Federated queries market hots up

"Dave responds"

"Dave responds" 06/17/2004 11:33 AM

"responds to Jonah Goldberg."

"responds to Jonah Goldberg." 06/18/2004 08:48 PM

ATP responds to Rusedski claims

ATP responds to Rusedski claims 01/09/2004 09:54 PM
The ATP refuses to comment on Greg Rusedski's positive drugs test but says it will enforce any ban.

AMD Responds to Intel's ''Acceptance''
of

AMD Responds to Intel's ''Acceptance''
of 04/02/2005 02:46 AM
HardwareGeeks.com Apr 2 2005 5:43AM GMT

DaimlerChrysler responds to SCO lawsuit

DaimlerChrysler responds to SCO lawsuit 04/29/2004 09:14 AM
DaimlerChrysler AG has asked a Michigan court to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by Unix vendor The SCO Group Inc., saying that there is "no genuine issue of material fact" in SCO's case.

AOL Responds to AIM Privacy Concerns

AOL Responds to AIM Privacy Concerns 03/14/2005 04:41 PM
Changes made to the terms of service for AOL Instant Messenger raised a hubbub last week among Internet bloggers who claimed AOL had stealthily added provisions that infringe upon the privacy of its users. In response, AOL has provided some answers to extinguish the fire by dismissing the "mistaken rumors" as being false.

SAPPHIRE Responds to 128-bit Confusion

SAPPHIRE Responds to 128-bit Confusion 06/16/2004 05:57 PM

Cory Doctorow responds

Cory Doctorow responds 04/01/2005 06:26 AM

I got an email from Cory Doctorow saying that my theoretical republishing of his book -- giving myself authorship credit, offering it for sale, and seeking distribution -- would be "fraudulent." So we know that Cory has a line. We're making progress. (Note I'm not going to publish his email, he can do that if he likes, and I'd like it if he would.)

Now, as I've said so many times (one more time won't hurt), I don't like it when a big heartless company takes my work and modifies it in a way that makes it hard to tell what they wrote and what I wrote. I'm concerned that if I let this company do it, then another company is going to, and another and pretty soon they're going to be competing on the basis of how "useful" they make my work, again without my permission, and with no compensation to me. I'm concerned that they may make changes I don't agree with, or even worse, change the meaning of what I wrote so as to confuse people about what I think. I quit working for a big publication because they were doing this, I went independent so my writing could have integrity, so it could truly represent what I think, to the best of my ability. Cory, Google crossed my line. To use your terminology, they're doing something fraudulent by passing off their derivative work as mine.

BTW, I say "I think," when stating an opinion. Cory and his colleagues (who mostly are not lawyers) state their legal opinion as fact. He also says "As you know" before saying something that I don't even agree with. That's just plain disrespectful, and makes discourse more difficult.

Ken Brown Responds to His Critics

Ken Brown Responds to His Critics 06/04/2004 07:05 PM

Rob Enderle responds to advice

Rob Enderle responds to advice 08/17/2004 05:19 PM
Pamela Jones was nice enough to send me a note this afternoon alerting me to the fact that Rob Enderle has taken the time to respond to the advice I gave him, last week. Enderle's response can be found here, on the LinuxInsider site.

Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik Responds

Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik Responds 11/25/2003 10:31 PM

Eugene Volokh responds

Eugene Volokh responds 12/05/2003 03:08 PM
Volokh

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Clarke responds to the attacks on him

Clarke responds to the attacks on him 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
More from Clarke... Richard Clarke terrorizes the White House The vice president commented that there was "no great success in dealing with terrorists" during the 1990s, when you were serving under President Clinton. He asked, "What were they doing?"It's possible that the vice president has spent so little time studying the terrorist phenomenon that he doesn't know about the successes in the 1990s. There were many. The Clinton administration stopped Iraqi terrorism against the United States, through military intervention. It...

Google Responds to China Ban

Google Responds to China Ban 09/03/2002 04:40 PM
Chinese Internet users reportedly have been blocked from accessing Google, but the U.S.-based search engine said it is working with Chinese officials to restore access. The blockage highlights a dilemma for Internet companies seeking to capitalize on China's booming Internet audience.

N Korea responds to US offer

N Korea responds to US offer 06/28/2004 06:37 AM
North Korea cautiously welcomes a US proposal to end the 20-month impasse over its nuclear programme.

Neil Gaiman Responds

Neil Gaiman Responds 11/03/2003 10:00 AM

Ashcroft responds to jet questions

Ashcroft responds to jet questions 04/13/2004 06:24 PM

Microsoft's Martin Taylor Responds

Microsoft's Martin Taylor Responds 03/14/2005 05:05 PM

Apple responds to RealNetwork's Harmony

Apple responds to RealNetwork's Harmony 07/29/2004 03:19 PM
Earlier this week, RealNetworks announced its plans to release software that will allegedly crack Apple's digital rights management allowing users of Real's music store to play their selections on Apple's iPod.

This announcement is widely believed to be how RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser intends to make good on the ultimatum he issued back in April when he emailed Jobs suggesting Real could either ally with Apple against Microsoft or with Microsoft against Apple. It seems Mr. Glaser has chosen to take on the world.

In regards to all of this intrigue, this morning Apple released the following statement:

We are stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod, and we are investigating the implications of their actions under the DMCA and other laws. We strongly caution Real and their customers that when we update our iPod software from time to time it is highly likely that Real's Harmony technology will cease to work with current and future iPods.

VeriSign responds to .net report
criticisms

VeriSign responds to .net report
criticisms 04/08/2005 11:57 AM
Plus a brief rundown of what happens next

Google Responds to SearchKing Complaint

Google Responds to SearchKing Complaint 01/09/2003 11:40 PM
LawMem has published the Google response to the SearchKing complaint. The bottom line is that Google says to the effect, that they did it to protect the integrity of the algo, and moreover it was there first amendment right to do it.
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