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Windows IT Pro Confirming rumors that began blossoming late last week, Microsoft this morning announced that it will purchase Internet communications firm Skype for $8.5 billion. The software giant lauded the deal's potential to increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications for both consumers and enterprises, but let's be clear here: This deal is about one thing and one thing only. And that is to keep Skype out of the hands of competitors like Facebook and Google. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Confirming rumors that began blossoming late last week, Microsoft this morning announced that it will purchase Internet communications firm Skype for $8.5 billion. The software giant lauded the deal's potential to increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications for both consumers and enterprises, but let's be clear here: This deal is about one thing and one thing only. And that is to keep Skype out of the hands of competitors like Facebook and Google. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Confirming rumors that began blossoming late last week, Microsoft this morning announced that it will purchase Internet communications firm Skype for $8.5 billion. The software giant lauded the deal's potential to increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications for both consumers and enterprises, but let's be clear here: This deal is about one thing and one thing only. And that is to keep Skype out of the hands of competitors like Facebook and Google. ... View the full article

The rumors were right. Microsoft announced on May 10 that it bought Skype, an Internet communications vendor, for $8.5 billion. View the full article

The rumors were right. Microsoft announced on May 10 that it bought Skype, an Internet communications vendor, for $8.5 billion. View the full article

The rumors were right. Microsoft announced on May 10 that it bought Skype, an Internet communications vendor, for $8.5 billion. View the full article

The rumors were right. Microsoft announced on May 10 that it bought Skype, an Internet communications vendor, for $8.5 billion. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file. An attacker who successfully exploited either of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. Installing and configuring Office File Validation (OFV) to prevent the opening of suspicious files blocks the attack vectors for exploiting the vulnerabilities described in CVE-2011-1269 and CVE-2011-1270. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file. An attacker who successfully exploited either of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. Installing and configuring Office File Validation (OFV) to prevent the opening of suspicious files blocks the attack vectors for exploiting the vulnerabilities described in CVE-2011-1269 and CVE-2011-1270. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file. An attacker who successfully exploited either of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. Installing and configuring Office File Validation (OFV) to prevent the opening of suspicious files blocks the attack vectors for exploiting the vulnerabilities described in CVE-2011-1269 and CVE-2011-1270. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file. An attacker who successfully exploited either of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. Installing and configuring Office File Validation (OFV) to prevent the opening of suspicious files blocks the attack vectors for exploiting the vulnerabilities described in CVE-2011-1269 and CVE-2011-1270. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS). The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user received a specially crafted WINS replication packet on an affected system running the WINS service. By default, WINS is not installed on any affected operating system. Only customers who manually installed this component are affected by this issue. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS). The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user received a specially crafted WINS replication packet on an affected system running the WINS service. By default, WINS is not installed on any affected operating system. Only customers who manually installed this component are affected by this issue. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS). The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user received a specially crafted WINS replication packet on an affected system running the WINS service. By default, WINS is not installed on any affected operating system. Only customers who manually installed this component are affected by this issue. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS). The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user received a specially crafted WINS replication packet on an affected system running the WINS service. By default, WINS is not installed on any affected operating system. Only customers who manually installed this component are affected by this issue. View the full article

The Wall Street Journal — citing those infamous “people familiar with the matter” — is reporting on May 9 that Microsoft is close to buying Skype. View the full article

The Wall Street Journal — citing those infamous “people familiar with the matter” — is reporting on May 9 that Microsoft is close to buying Skype. View the full article

The Wall Street Journal — citing those infamous “people familiar with the matter” — is reporting on May 9 that Microsoft is close to buying Skype. View the full article

The Wall Street Journal — citing those infamous “people familiar with the matter” — is reporting on May 9 that Microsoft is close to buying Skype. View the full article

Microsoft is launching a new phase of its “I’m a PC” campaign on prime-time TV in the U.S. tonight. Here’s the spot. View the full article

Microsoft is launching a new phase of its “I’m a PC” campaign on prime-time TV in the U.S. tonight. Here’s the spot. View the full article

Microsoft is launching a new phase of its “I’m a PC” campaign on prime-time TV in the U.S. tonight. Here’s the spot. View the full article

Microsoft is launching a new phase of its “I’m a PC” campaign on prime-time TV in the U.S. tonight. Here’s the spot. View the full article

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