Just in time for Valentine’s Day <g>, Microsoft has released yet another set of patches for security holes in their products. There’s about 55 patches including a particularly nasty Outlook bug and problems with Microsoft new ‘safer’ Edge browser. Microsoft has or will push these fixes out through Windows/Microsoft update. Our test machines where already […]
There’s joy and celebrations in the streets of Maine as their Oxford Comma dispute is settled. Even Microsoft Word approves the new law! The missing comma only cost $5 million plus legal fees. A quick follow up to our 2017 story about a legal dispute around the lack of an Oxford Comma. Oxford Comma in […]
BitGlass and Cylance have found some new ransomware called Shurl0cker that managed to fool both Google and Microsoft’s scans to arrive on their customers cloud storage. According to the researchers: “Two well-known cloud platforms with built-in malware protection, Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365, failed to identify the ransomware. In addition, Bitglass tested VirusTotal, a […]
“Why Microsoft Office is a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush Saga” says one of our favorite podcasters, Tim Hartford. Is he right? Hartford isn’t any random blogger. He’s a respected writer with a regular column in The Economist, a series of wonderfully readable books and a great radio program/podcast, More or Less on BBC […]
You might be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft Office isn’t so much software as a ‘trojan horse’ allowing hackers the opportunity to destroy, copy or ransom your valuable information. That’s overkill, of course, but each week there’s yet another new attack on millions of computers relying on Microsoft Office. If it’s not a newly found […]
