Microsoft revises program to protect e-mail users; it moves to block rogue file attachments
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After the 'I Love You' e-mail virus, Microsoft Corp. has decided to revise its Outlook software in order to protect its users. The update will be available for free on the Internet on Microsoft's Web site. The software update is supposed to prevent e-mail users from receiving 'rogue' e-mail attachments.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2000
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Driving Windows XP to market
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Chris Jones, the Microsoft vice president in charge of the 1,000-person team that built the new Windows XP operating system admitted he was a Macintosh fan when he started at Microsoft in 1989. A star programmer with computer and math majors at Stanford, Jones is deemed a clear-thinking respected leader who settled arguments and balanced negotiations between marketeers and software developers. Amidst some criticism, Windows XP is being hailed as easy to use as a portal to computing and the Web.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2001
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