MS to fix six flaws next week
Microsoft will release six security updates next week to bring the year's total to 77, a new record, reports Information Week.
In the advance notification posted mid-morning yesterday, Microsoft said it would issue five updates for Windows and one that targets Visual Studio, one of the company's development platforms. At least two of the updates will be labelled "critical", Microsoft's highest warning.
Microsoft doesn't disclose the exact components, services, or applications to be patched prior to delivering the updates on the second Tuesday of each month, but only offers clues about what it plans to fix. Some hints can be gleaned from third-party security vendors that track zero-day, or unpatched, vulnerabilities.
Intel trots out its first WiMax mobile chipset
Intel has showed off its first mobile WiMax baseband chipset, which it hopes will begin appearing in notebooks as early as 2008, during a keynote demo at the 3G World Congress and Mobility Marketplace event, in Hong Kong.
The chipset will move Intel closer to its vision of WiMax driving the next wave of "personal broadband" laptops and handhelds. Whether the technology will indeed become a dominant global technology remains to be seen, says Computer Business Review Online.
Intel began releasing fixed WiMax products last year. But it expects the "heavy investment" by industry in WiMax to be in the 802.16e mobile WiMax standard, according to Dave Hofer, director of marketing in Intel's wireless division.
Ecma approves MS Office Open XML as a standard
Microsoft has won approval for its Office Open XML document format from international standards body Ecma International.
Ecma's general assembly voted 20 to one in favour of the standard at a meeting in Zurich today, and will now submit the format to the International Organisation for Standardisation for its approval. The lone vote against approval came from an IBM representative.
According to Computerworld, a standardised document format will make it easier for competing software companies to develop products that can work smoothly with one another, such as editing the same documents.
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