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Fenghuang Wang, Calif. on September 2 morning news, Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 be released starting from Wednesday, Microsoft has mobile phone manufacturers and service providers a modified mobile phone operating system.

As most of the internal development has been completed, the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and mobile phone service provider partners have to be Windows Phone 7 RTM version of the operating system, so that production can customize and make available for holiday release preparation.

Microsoft for Windows Phone 7 Myerson, vice president of development said, Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft’s most comprehensive mobile testing platform. He said the new operating system in a million daily automatic test equipment, has adopted the 3.5 million hours of intensive testing and 8.5 million hours of automatic testing.

Although Microsoft has just released RTM version now, but the OEM manufacturers and operators have been testing for some time, because Microsoft back in July provided to developers in mid-Phone 7 Technology Preview. Since then, Microsoft has received feedback from various testers, based on that feedback, Microsoft has made many improvements.

For example, the new operating system now have the contact filtering, so users can synchronize accounts exclude those of other Facebook contacts do not exist. Mobile users can also comment on Facebook and directly posted on the wall. To improve the user experience and accelerate the process of looking for people, Microsoft added a touch Dating Service Search button, which allows users to easily find contacts.

According to Microsoft, the Mobile World Congress in 2010 declared the list, Windows Phone 7 of the manufacturers: Dell, HTC Corporation, Jia Ming – ASUS, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba; operator partners, including : AT & T Corporation. T-Mobile USA, Sprint Corporation, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, SFR, Telefonica and Vodafone. It is not clear whether these companies will release Windows Phone 7 equipment, but LG, Samsung and HTC have got the Federal Communications Commission license Windows devices. On the other hand, HP also partners in the initial list, but HP says that the company will focus on the development of WebOS phone. (Compile / Billboard)

Position: Left for the proportion of unrepaired holes, the right to not repair the "key" and "high" risk ratio

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 early morning news, according to foreign media reports, last Wednesday IBM security research team published a major software maker of software security vulnerabilities on their own repair reports, and gain a position.

Rankings, IBM’s own software, 29% of the “critical” and “high” risk has not been fixed, for the major software vendors in the worst performance. And Google are both ranked in the best performance, so that all the open holes (including the critical and high-risk vulnerabilities) have timely patches.

The report published twice a year, mainly to track within six months the major software vulnerabilities and hacker attack exploited the situation, while the major software vendors to fix known vulnerabilities were investigated and ranked by the survey, including Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Cisco and IBM own and so on.

The survey found that Microsoft first half of 2010, 23% of known software vulnerabilities have not been repaired, ranking first in the major software vendors, followed by Mozilla (Mozilla) of 17%, Apple 12%, IBM Sun 9% and 8%.

In the known “critical” and “high” risk ratio is not fixed, IBM in the first half of the figure as high as 29%, the highest ranking, followed by Oracle’s 22%, Novell 10%, 7% of Microsoft and HP’s 5%.

However, IBM in this survey did not distinguish between the use of loopholes and cyber crime from the security researchers discovered vulnerabilities. In fact, the survey most of the loopholes in the statistics is the so-called “white hat” hackers discovered, they will not use loopholes to attack, but only make the software more secure.

Reported, such investigation report urged the major software vendors are often able to fix known vulnerabilities in its software so as to enhance software security.

May 26 news, Acer global strategy conference in Beijing. Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci said in his speech, long time in the future, China will from now on the market to become the world’s second World, “the world’s largest computer market.”

Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci (Fenghuang Wang technology with map)

Gianfranco Lanci said the current market share is still very low per capita household computer, the global market has achieved a 50% per capita penetration. In his view, including the personal computer market, including all of the emerging markets will grow rapidly.

Gianfranco Lanci that technology is an important reason for this change, “We want to continuously improve the technology, so can improve even more easy to use, and faster equipment and products.” He said.

Gianfranco Lanci also said that technology is not the only factors to be considered consumption. He said that “more importantly, we also see the platform is not Windows so the only option on the market in the future will also see a variety of different options.”

December 9 News, VeriSign announced that Microsoft’s Windows Azure for the cloud-based computing platform, security and certification services.

Microsoft will VeriSign VeriSign SSL certificates and code signing certificates, to protect Windows Azure platform, developing and deploying on the cloud-based computing services and applications. The platform includes cloud computing operating system, Windows Azure, cloud computing related database SQL Azure, Windows Azure platform, AppFabric Service Bus and AppFabric Access Control and a series of preinstalled advanced application services to ensure that developers can more easily deploy and manage across the server and cloud computing composite applications.

Microsoft’s cloud-based computing services and applications to help enterprises to ever-changing needs of the IT resources to make efficient response, while reducing IT costs and complexity. Windows Azure platform, also provides a rich environment for developers to take advantage of this environment, be able to quickly build innovative solutions and drive revenue growth.

As similar Windows Azure cloud computing platform has a flexible, dynamic, and can be anywhere from the Internet access features, and therefore reliable protection for cloud computing security, requiring the infrastructure to on-demand expansion, in order to meet cloud computing unique challenges.

* VeriSign SSL Certificate to ensure business users running on Windows Azure application that has a strong SSL encryption. Similarly VeriSign SSL to protect users, applications, and data transmitted between servers, while users and cloud-based computing provides key authentication between servers.

· Windows Azure application developers can use the VeriSign code signing code signing certificate to the end-user indicates that a program from a trusted publisher. Through the application of digital signatures for the code, code signing certificates are seen as cloud-based computing applications, “virtual protective film.” If the digital signature is damaged, said the program has been tampered with, thereby protecting users from hackers or malicious code threats.

* VeriSign certificate management solutions to further simplify SSL certificate and digital signature management.

Doug Hauger, general manager of Microsoft’s Windows Azure, said: “VeriSign for Windows Azure platform, developers and end users to provide a safe and secure environment, and we feel very happy. VeriSign, through its SSL certificates and code signing certificates to provide proven security protection to help ensure that users can have the Windows Azure platform, the experience can be trusted. ”

VeriSign’s senior vice president, Authentication Services, Fran Rosch, said: “We are very honored to be able to use VeriSign’s expertise, for Windows Azure cloud-based computing platform security solutions. Businesses and consumers are looking forward to Windows Azure such a global platform to provide world-class security, and the VeriSign SSL and code signing solutions that will ensure that they can get the desired security. as a cloud-based computing solutions, a pioneer VeriSign in the to protect its users the necessary measures to this platform has a unique insight. “

Microsoft’s own-brand mobile phones iPhone goal is to research and development. This is a project code-named Pink, the rumor that Microsoft has developed this a few months. These phones will be installed under development in Windows Mobile 7 system, which means that may not be known until the end of next year. These phones will also include the latest version of Zune components. Looks really good. But may also function with the Sidekick, because Danger team is in charge of the Pink Project.

Mary Jo said, Microsoft does not own production of these phones, but it will, and OEM manufacturers closely monitor the entire process of production, collection, as Zune subscription music and video downloads and other services. This means that these new phones available on the market than the poor a better Windows Mobile phones.

It was reported that Apple is developing a tablet PC, it is estimated as a queen of the iPod touch. Microsoft is also planning to give its Tablet PC with a new vitality. This will be Microsoft’s multi-touch touch-screen came to inspiration, was considered to be “adventurous Alchemist (Alchemy Ventures)” part of it. Mary Jo predicted that Microsoft will likely wait until Apple launched its Tablet PC, it shows Microsoft’s own Tablet PC.

These plans are feasible? Microsoft from the portable device market, Apple’s share of minutes to go do? Perhaps. Microsoft money, can do whatever he wanted to do, as long as he believes heaven will be Diaoxian Bing. However, based on Microsoft in the mobile phone industry, a very mediocre history, it is almost impossible. And most Microsoft employees do not seem ready to move “navigation”, and that Microsoft want to win, we should pay close attention to the mobilization of workers, “set sail”, because Apple and other competitors are about to start.