Outlook 2010 Business Contact Manager

Microsoft abruptly changed its mind about handing out Outlook 2010 Business Contact Manager to small and medium businesses.

Details in my Infoworld Tech Watch blog.

Important updates on MS10-070 patch

Susan Bradley has an excellent analysis and all sorts of important advice. For the first time, she’s posting it online in the Lounge – not in Windows Secrets Newsletter (which isn’t coming out this week).

MS10-070 patches the 0day holes in ASP.NET that I’ve been talking about.

Take a look at the discussion.

(By the way, to get the latest on all of this, follow me on Twitter: @woodyleonhard . Don’t forget the “h”.)

Dropbox makes hay while MS snoozes

Upstart Dropbox forges ahead while Microsoft diddles.

See my Infoworld Tech Watch post.

Bringing some sanity to Stuxnet coverage

The title says it all: Stuxnet worm + Iran + mainstream media = Global nuclear meltdown.

Don’t drink the Kool-Aid. Get the facts about Stuxnet in my Infoworld Tech Watch blog.

Samy Kamar’s zombie cookie factory

Samy Kamar is an amazing programmer/sleuth.

I’ve been talking about zombie cookies for a couple of months now, with several articles in Windows Secrets Newsletter, and a couple of posts on Infoworld’s Tech Watch. The basic idea: there’s a way to stick a copy of any cookie in Flash’s local storage, so a site’s cookie can be restored even if you delete it.

Ergo, zombie cookie.

A couple of days ago, Samy published a program that stores and retrieves cookies in eight different locations. The “zombie” factor can retrieve and reconstitute a cookie from any of those eight locations – and he says he has four more locations coming.

Amazing. Check out the article in Infoworld Tech Watch.

My take on Internet Explorer 9

My review of IE 9 just hit Windows Secrets Newsletter.

In spite of what you  may have seen or heard, it isn’t all derivative. MS came up with some new features, and they aren’t bad. Take a look.

Internet Explorer 9: good enough to beat Firefox and Chrome?

Internet Explorer has gone from about 90% market share to about 50%, in four years.

Microsoft released a “public” beta of the new version of Internet Explorer last week. Firefox 4 and Chrome 7 – both new versions – are in publicly available beta.

There are pro’s and con’s of all three. But the over-arching question is whether IE9 is good enough to regain some of its market share.

My latest Infoworld Tech Watch article takes a look at IE’s mojo.

ZoneAlarm using scare tactics to sell bits

I think it stinks.

ZoneAlarm has started showing a bogus “Virus Warning” dialog to ZoneAlarm Free users, trying to get them to pay for the retail version.

Details on my Tech Watch blog.