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Microsoft has issued a high-priority security update to fix a pair of “critical” flaws that expose Windows users to remote code execution attacks. The software giant’s first batch of patches for 2008 includes a fix for at least two vulnerabilities in TCP/IP processing. The bugs, rated critical for all supported versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista, could be exploited by remote attackers to “take complete control of an affected system,” Microsoft warned in its MS08-001 bulletin.
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Microsoft Corp said on Sunday that Windows Vista sales topped 100 million before the 2007 holiday season when an extra flood of buyers purchased personal computers. The world’s largest software maker announced passing the threshold during Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates’ keynote speech at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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One-third of enterprises will start company-wide roll-outs of Windows Vista in 2008 as Microsoft begins to phase out support for Windows XP, analyst firm Forrester has predicted. Many businesses have been reluctant to deploy the new operating system until it has proved its stability and because of a relative lack of compatible applications.
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The reviews are in–and they don’t matter one damn bit. Microsoft’s Windows Vista went on sale a year ago this month, and despite poor marks from the tech press and heaping helpings of scorn from Mac and Linux aficionados, the operating system has turned into a money machine for Microsoft.

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Microsoft plans to issue two security patches next Tuesday, one of which earns the dreaded rating of critical, in this year’s first edition of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle. The critical update covers a flaw that allows the remote execution of malicious software on vulnerable clients, including Windows Vista systems. The patch is also a critical update for Windows XP. The second update, rated as “important”, covers an unspecified privilege elevation flaw.

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Microsoft is set to change how users activate Windows XP. The company will introduce a new procedure when Service Pack 3 is introduced, early this year. According to a Microsoft White Paper, new installations of Windows XP SP3 will give users the same 30-day grace period currently offered to Windows Vista customers before they’re required to enter a product activation key, the 25-character code that proves the copy is legitimate.

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Microsoft reports “limited” attacks on Windows XP systems via an unexpected path exploiting a security hole in a copy protection program that comes with XP. (Windows Vista is not at risk.) The program that attackers are leveraging is Macrovision’s SafeDisc, optical-disc copy prevention software for Windows applications and games. The flaw is located in a system driver file called secdrv.sys. Microsoft immediately issued a Security Advisory.
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Wishes for the future often accompany the celebrations that ring in the start of a new year. And for technology fans, there’s plenty to put on the wish list. For while this year was a big year for product rollouts, in some ways it was transitional: offering us mere glimpses of the better things that might come. Here are a few.

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Microsoft Corp. will change how users activate Windows XP when Service Pack 3 launches in the first half of 2008, a company white paper said.

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I was not a fan of 2007. It was another crappy tech year—just the latest in a string of bad years dating back to 2000. Let’s see some of the highlights and lowlights in no particular order.

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Shortly before Hu’s Seattle visit, the Chinese government had issued a decree requiring all personal computers manufactured in China to come with a licensed operating system before leaving the factory gates. Now, nearly two years later, that gift keeps giving. The software company co-founded by Gates is seeing the benefits of more stringent intellectual property policies in China, with a decline in piracy rates and improved results at its mainstay Windows division.

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Everyday people ask me the same question over and over again. What is the difference between Windows and Linux? I’ve decided to write this article so people can read this and decide. If it was up to me, I would change the whole world computers to Linux base operating system as this article posted on a powerful Red Hat Enterprise Server.
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As the one-year anniversary of Windows Vista approaches, more than a few industry analysts and pundits are ready to write the beleaguered operating system off as a crashing disappointment. Some have even wondered if Vista is on the same path as that of Windows/ME, widely considered to be one of Microsoft’s rare failures in the operating systems business.
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Apple Mac operating systems had more critical vulnerabilities reported in 2007 than Microsoft’s operating systems, according to research. George Ou, a writer for ZDNet.co.uk’s sister site ZDNet.com, analysed in-depth statistics from security research company Secunia as a basis for his research. He found that Apple’s latest operating system, Mac OS X, faced more critical flaws than Windows XP and Vista combined.
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Microsoft Corp. said today that it would post the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site tonight.The move marks the first opportunity for all users of the six-year-old operating system to try out its final upgrade. Previously, several thousand users were given access to test builds of SP3 only by Microsoft’s invitation.
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