According to the report BeyondTrust, more than half of all vulnerabilities of the official Microsoft Security Bulletin for 2009 can be eliminated by simply working from a simple user account without administrative rights.

For Windows 7, the figure is 57% (according to the list of vulnerabilities for March 2010) for Windows 2000 – 53% for XP – 62% for Server 2003 – 55, Vista – 54%, Server 2008 – 53%. Most of all pleased Office and Explorer 8: They can be closed so all 100% of vulnerabilities.

In general, all Windows-based vulnerabilities number of solved borrow 64%, and if we take only critical, they will be much 81%. Overall, for all the products Microsoft statistics is 90%.

In the Microsoft Security Bulletin for 2009 lists 166 vulnerabilities, 133 of which belong to different versions of Windows.

As is known, many users Windows operating from the administrator account: so it is easier and familiar. The same often happens in companies where IT departments look the other way at such a flippant attitude to safety. As you see, simply by limiting user rights can be significantly – and totally free – to solve many problems.

Via Ars Technica

Microsoft has confirmed that the new «office» package – Office 2010 – will come at plants by January 2010.

Also reported that the online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, for general happiness, will appear. However, they will be somewhat curtailed, and profits from them go exclusively through the deployment of advertising.

As noted by Chris Kaposcella (Chris Capossela), Vice-President of Microsoft, on the shelves of stores the new version will appear in early winter or spring of 2011.

History of Windows 7 will not be repeated

Microsoft will release two versions of a new package of Office – 32 – and 64-bit. Nevertheless, none of them will not be publicly available in beta version, as it was (and, in general, there are – ca. Ed.) With Windows 7.