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Microsoft releases Office 2004 11.5.9, Office 2008 12.2.5

Late Tuesday, Microsoft released version 11.5.9 of its Microsoft Office 2004 suite and version 12.2.5 of its Microsoft Office 2008 suite. The updates, which weigh in at 9.7 and 332 megabytes, respectively, focus on improving security for both suites, fixing vulnerabilities that could allow malicious code to overwrite portions of your Mac’s memory and run […]

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Apple working to include Bing within iPhone OS 4.0 web services

Per a report by TechCrunch, Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 will also include search and related web services from Microsoft’s Bing as well as inclusion of Google, as per usual. The new iPhone OS won’t drop Google for Bing entirely, but will expand the number of search options iPhone users see, and apparently make those options […]

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Apple developing its own alternative to Flash via Gianduia

When in doubt, roll your own. As the multimedia wars continue between Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, Apple is using Gianduia, a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps that it introduced World of WebObjects Developers Conference last summer, to create its own production quality apps. Gianduia, named after an Italian hazelnut chocolate, is […]

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Microsoft Updates Office 2004, 2008, Open XML Converter

Yesterday, Microsoft updated just about everything in its Office suites, the first change being an update of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac to version 11.5.8. The new version, a 9.7 megabyte download, improves security and includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. […]

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Mac OS X Market Share Up 29% According to Recent Report

If you’re still being told that the Mac is on its way out (a la the mantra of the 90’s), a new set of statistics released today show that the market share of Mac OS X in Web use has grown by 29.4% in the last year, while Windows has decreased 3.8%. According to AppleInsider, […]