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Supersite Tech news and tidbits of the day, from around the web, including WSJ angst over the iPhone being made in China, a new Windows Live plug-ins site, how not to look lame carrying an iPad (hint: It's impossible), more. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Lync, Office 365, IE9, and Windows Phone—the latest from the industry insider’s industry insider. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Microsoft this week unveiled its Fall 2010 Update for the Bing search service, which will add prettier, more visual search results; better performance; social networking integration; and new mobile apps. The update is just the latest in a long series of updates to the evolving service, which has captured almost 12 percent of the US search market. ... View the full article

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Yes, calendar-wise it is mid-December. But that isn’t stopping Microsoft from calling a new set of social, mobile and local search enhancements it is rolling out to Bing users over the next couple of weeks its “fall update.” View the full article

Forrester Research is warning business users who are ready to move to Microsoft’s Office 2010 — especially from older versions of Microsoft Office — that they may face some easily and not-so-easily remediable pitfalls. View the full article

Supersite Tech news and tidbits of the day, from around the web, including an HTML 5 video extension for Firefox, IE security, Amazon MP3 on Blackberry, A Lulu replacement, more. ... View the full article

Microsoft made the Release Candidate (RC) test build of its Dynamics CRM 2011 offering available for download as of December 14. The global launch of the product is slated for January 20 next year. View the full article

In addition to talking up Windows tablets and slates at the January Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft execs also are expected to use the conference to give another push to Windows Phone 7. But the first “major” update to the WP7 platform may not hit until August or September, my sources claim. View the full article

Supersite Microsoft will deliver a first beta of Windows 8 in 2011, but the company has a lot of work to do if it wants to compete with a simpler new generation of competitors like the iPad and Chrome OS. The first thing the software giant needs to fix is how Windows handles user documents and settings, functionality Microsoft calls user state virtualization. ... View the full article

Microsoft has kicked off an open beta of a new multiplayer game called Neosaurs, which it is attempting to propogate virally via Twitter and Facebook. View the full article

After having a chance to play with the Google Cr-48 Chromebook prototype, I’m stymied as to who the real Chromebook user is supposed to be. So far, I don’t see myself in that category. View the full article

Supersite Amahi makes a home server solution of sorts, which I had never heard of previously, but it looks interesting. And now they're throwing out a bone to Windows Home Server users who are disgruntled over Microsoft's decision to axe Drive Extender in "Vail". ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Yahoo! played the role of the Grinch this week, confirming that it has let go more than 600 employees, or about 4 percent of its workforce. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro As part of its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday event this week, the software giant also announced that it will be backporting an Office 2010 security feature called Office File Validation to Office 2007 and 2003. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Depending on who you talk to, the launch of Windows Phone 7 this past fall has either gone quite well or has been a complete and utter disaster. Of course, I'm presenting this like it's some kind of debate, but if you've been paying attention to the news, it's been all bad. ... View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Moderate - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an authenticated attacker sent a specially crafted network message to a computer running the Exchange service. Firewall best practices and standard default firewall configurations can help protect networks from attacks that originate outside the enterprise perimeter. Best practices recommend that systems that are connected to the Internet have a minimal number of ports exposed. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted image file using Microsoft Office. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the local 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. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution in the security context of a guest user if an attacker sent a specially crafted SOAP request to the Document Conversions Launcher Service in a SharePoint server environment that is using the Document Conversions Load Balancer Service. By default, the Document Conversions Load Balancer Service and Document Conversions Launcher Service are not enabled in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves five privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Publisher that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Publisher file. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. 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. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if a specially crafted packet is sent to the VMBus by an authenticated user in one of the guest virtual machines hosted by the Hyper-V server. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to send specially crafted content from a guest virtual machine to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Netlogon RPC Service on affected versions of Windows Server that are configured to serve as domain controllers. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an attacker sends a specially crafted RPC packet to the Netlogon RPC Service interface on an affected system. An attacker requires administrator privileges on a machine that is joined to the same domain as the affected domain controller in order to exploit this vulnerability. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Consent User Interface (UI). The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker runs a specially crafted application on an affected system. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and the SeImpersonatePrivilege and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update addresses a privately reported vulnerability in the Routing and Remote Access NDProxy component of Microsoft Windows. This security update is rated Important for all supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. All supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not affected by the vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users. View the full article