July 6, 2006

More buzz on the Microsoft media player

I have no knowledge of this project and have never heard a thing from inside Microsoft about this video/music player concept, and wouldn’t expect to given my role. Having said that, the buzz is tremendously exciting. Peter Rojas of Engadet writes, “To attract current iPod users Microsoft is going to let you download for free any [...]

July 6, 2006

FBI security breach- how does this happen?

Washington Post: “A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI’s classified computer system and gain the passwords of 38,000 employees, including that of FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III… [Joseph Thomas Colon], 28, an employee of BAE Systems who was assigned to the FBI field office in [...]

July 6, 2006

“What happens to your own personal internet?”

Ted Stevens (R-Alaska): “But this service is now going to go through the internet and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free. Ten of them streaming [...]

July 6, 2006

ODF Support in Office

Financial Times: “[Microsoft will] develop tools to build a “technical bridge” between its own Open XML document format and the OpenDocument format (ODF).”
Brian Jones from the Office team writes, “We’ve talked a lot about the value the Open XML formats bring, and one of them of course is the ability to filter it down into other [...]