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• Microsoft to hand out early code

  Looking to drive demand for a wave of forthcoming products, Microsoft will fill the pockets of developers this week with early versions of several programs, including the latest "build" of Windows Vista.

• Microsoft accelerates public sector offensive

  Microsoft will share information about security problems with government agencies as part of its efforts to slow the spread of open source software.

• Will code check tools yield worm-proof software?

  When Microsoft needed help in taming the large number of flaws that had crept into its Windows operating system, it looked to technology known as "static source code checkers" and a company called Intrinsa.

• Microsoft tracks possible Windows code leak

  Microsoft is investigating the possibility that a file posted to several underground sites and chat rooms contains some protected source code to Windows 2000.

• Microsoft cracks down on source code traders

  Microsoft has sent several letters to people known to have posted Windows source code on the Internet, warning them to stop offering the files and erase any copies.

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  The seven Eskimo rules of designing icebergs

  Blogs consisting solely of bullet points seem to be popular these days, if Guy Kawasaki's rather lazy blog is anything to go by. This morning, Microsoft's Don Dodge detailed venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins' list of seven rules for software startups, as told by KP partner Ajit Nazre at a recent conference.

Features and Case Studies (166)

• Beating Microsoft to the punch

  When Microsoft was slow to fix a Windows flaw, Russian developer Ilfak Guilanov took matters into his own hands. He explains why he wrote a patch that drew rare backing from antivirus companies.

• How corporate Australia battles information overload

  We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.

• Keeping Microsoft in the frame

  Windows chief Kevin Johnson has two huge tasks: Chase Google with Windows Live and get the operating system back on track.

• Symantec: Mozilla browsers more vulnerable than IE

  But security firm also finds that Microsoft's IE is the only browser widely exploited by hackers today.

• SAP to release 'Mendocino' for testing

  Next week customers can begin testing software that links Microsoft's e-mail and calendar programs with SAP's back-office business applications, the companies said.

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• Microsoft tracks possible Windows code leak

  Microsoft is investigating the possibility that a file posted to several underground sites and chat rooms contains some protected source code to Windows 2000.

• Group ditches bid to crack Xbox code

  A computing project has abandoned its effort to crack the main security code for Microsoft's Xbox video game console.

• Microsoft defends Windows CE code-share

  The new version of Microsoft's Windows CE code-sharing agreement must be popular because vendors have signed up to it, says the software giant.

• PC army tackles Xbox security code

  A growing army of PC owners is hoping to use the power of the masses to crack the main security code of Microsoft's Xbox and claim $100,000 in the process.

• Images: Outlook 2007 beta 2

  Outlook 2007 beta 2: a more convenient tool for communications and time management than its 2003 ancestor?

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