Microsoft Vista will be out later this year.  As an IT manager, CIO, or other persons making technology decisions you probably want to start reviewing Windows Vista along with Office 12 (possible renamed Office vista).  I am generally not a fan of a new OS until after the first service pack, but Vista does have some inviting features.  Vista will be divided into multiple versions, I have listed them below for you to get started with, more will follow after I research and test Vista.
The versions that follow are divided …

I have been given the task of determining presence for all employees.  For those that do not know what presence is, basically it is determining where you are at and what your status is.  Are you at work?  Are you on your cell phone traveling?  Are you at home? If you are at work are you available?  My task is not to track location as much as providing status of employees while at work.
Those that have gone down this road before know what technology I am thinking of, Jabber.  Jabber …

I have been running IE 7 for a few days now.  Generally I have been happy with it. I had a DLL issue once which caused my browser to crash.  Other than that one single issue it has run flawlessly.  I do enjoy tabbed browsing, but I already had that in Firefox.  While I do like IE 7, so far there is nothing to write home about.  I have not had a chance to play with the new RSS functionality.  Hopefully I will find the time this week to play …

It looks like CME-24 was not a very big deal after all.  We took an extra cautionary backup of the files that could have been infected.  We also manually scanned the network for traces of the worm and none were found.  We did find one occurance of the worm on our Exchange server, but NAV was able to stop it.  All is well today. 
security, worm, cme-24

The F-Secure blog is reporting that they’ve already received reports that it’s hit some users already. As the activation is based on the computer’s clock, if you’re clock’s not set correctly, then this could hit you anytime.
F-Secure have released a free tool to disinfect any machines that may be infected, this can be downloaded here. It’s recommended that if you’re not a 100% sure that you are not infected, then download the tool and run it.
When Blackworm/Nyxem.E activates it will overwrite all of the following file types:
DOC
XLS
PPT
ZIP
RAR
PDF
MDB
This will not only …

This morning Microsoft has released a public beta of version 7 of their Internet Explorer web browser, aimed at developers, although I’m sure a lot of tech-savvy and adventurous users will download and install it as well.
IE, Microsoft, browsers