Tag: engineering
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Vista Aims to Stop Hackers’ Social Engineering Ploys
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft says the Windows operating system software is not the weakest link in desktop security, and contends that Windows Vista will help limit the greatest vulnerability of all—users’ bad decision-making. While previous iterations of Microsoft’s dominant operating system hit the market with an abundance of security loopholes that left users open to many different forms… Read more
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Software Product Lines Automate Development
Categories: News and TrendsBALTIMORE—With reuse of software assets as its foundation, the software product line theory will help foster mass production and customization of software to power the next generation of systems, SPL experts said at a conference here. At the Software Product Line Conference, vendors, researchers and practitioners shed light on the status of software product lines,… Read more
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Microsoft’s Exchange Roadmap Takes Another Turn
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft Corp. on Wednesday announced an update to the product roadmap for its Exchange messaging server that rolls Exchange Edge Services—once intended as a separate release—into future Exchange versions and commits the company to evolving Exchange into a unified messaging platform. In addition, the company for now is abandoning the adoption of SQL Server as… Read more
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Microsoft Turns to External Patch Testers
Categories: News and TrendsLooking to improve—and possibly speed up—the creation and release of software security patches, Microsoft Corp. is implementing a closed beta program for external testing teams. The formalization of Redmond’s new Security Update Validation Program clears the way for external patch testers to get “limited and controlled access” to security updates ahead of public release. The… Read more