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  • The $99 tablet could catapult Microsoft to the top of the tablet heap

    The $99 tablet could catapult Microsoft to the top of the tablet heap

    I don’t generally make my tech choices based solely on price, and I don’t recommend others use price as a primary factor in tech purchasing decisions, but at some point price is certainly a consideration. With a handful of $99 Windows 8.1 tablets coming soon, that magic, sub-$100 price point could make Microsoft a very…

  • Think VBA macro malware is dead? Think again

    Think VBA macro malware is dead? Think again

    VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macros haven’t been a significant malware threat for a few years now. Ever since Microsoft disabled VBA macro execution by default in the Microsoft Office suite, malicious VBA macros can’t execute without user intervention. From the point of view of malware developers, though, this is not a defeat. It’s just…

  • Microsoft fixes another 24 flaws in Internet Explorer

    Microsoft fixes another 24 flaws in Internet Explorer

    Microsoft issued six new security bulletins for the July 2014 Patch Tuesday. One of them is a Critical update for Internet Explorer that fixes 24 separate vulnerabilities. For those keeping score, that makes 83 flaws fixed in Microsoft’s Web browser in just the past few weeks. That certainly doesn’t sound like a good thing. The…