Microsoft
TechWeb, 7/1/03: Microsoft Feels Your Pain
By Mark Glaser
A thousand points of light. A kinder, gentler country. These are mottos from the first Bush administration's attempt to connect with ordinary citizens. Microsoft seems to be appropriating the elder Bush's efforts with a multi-pronged effort to soften its take-no-prisoners image.
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ZDNet, 7/1/03: Beta of Office more widely available
By David Becker
Microsoft has announced general availability of an update to the latest trial version of its Office software.
The software giant last week issued a "technical refresh" for the second beta version of Office 2003, the company's high-profile revamp of the market-leading package of productivity applications. The refresh initially was available only to a select group of 10,000 "technical" testers. The company on Monday made it available to all 600,000 beta testers.
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Wall Street Journal, 7/1/03: Microsoft Fixes Another Flaw In Passport Identity Service
WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it has fixed another security flaw in its popular Internet Passport service that could have allowed hackers to hijack some older accounts.
Microsoft senior manager Jeff Jones said he believes no Passport accounts were stolen. Mr. Jones declined to say how many people were at risk but said the flaw affected only a small number of users who had created their accounts more than four years ago. As part of its repair efforts late Monday, Microsoft briefly prevented some Passport users from manually changing their passwords.
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Social Software
Clay Shirkey, O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference Keynote, 4/23/03
This talk is in three parts. The best explanation I have found for the kinds of things that happen when groups of humans interact is psychological research that predates the Internet, so the first part is going to be about W.R. Bion's research, which I will talk about in a moment, research that I believe explains how and why a group is its own worst enemy.
The second part is: Why now? What's going on now that makes this worth thinking about? I think we're seeing a revolution in social software in the current environment that's really interesting.
And third, I want to identify some things, about half a dozen things, in fact, that I think are core to any software that supports larger, long-lived groups.
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