Security
Internet News, 7/9/04: Microsoft Faces Angry IE Users' Questions
By Sean Michael Kerner
In a lively online discussion Thursday, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) engineers faced off with end users who lobbed irate questions, comments and a few tirades about its Internet Explorer browser.
More than any topic, security reigned as the most pervasive theme during the online discussion, including when end users could see the next patch for vulnerabilities in IE.
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Collaborative Technologies
Release 1.0, 6/31/04: Meta-mail: A Medium for Meaning
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This issue highlights some of the tools and applications that are beginning to appear in this middle space, where users are finally getting tools to define and control processes for themselves, for teams and even in part for enterprises. There’s no single concept quite as compelling as the spreadsheet, but a collection of tools and approaches that will serve to make business processes easier to modesl and manage. Underneath it all is metadata – information about the processes – as opposed to data, which is what the processes often manage. And off in the future is Longhorn, Microsoft’s database-oriented operating and file system that should do for metadata and processes what databases do for data.
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