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Microsoft Tips
and Tricks
Create and Use an
E-mail Signature
If you're like many people, e-mail is
a regular part of your workday. You send mail to business
associates, customers, friends, and family — and you most likely end
your message with a different closing depending on the recipient.
Over the course of a day, that can add up to a lot of repetitive
typing. Why not use automatic e-mail signatures instead?
Creating, managing, and using automatic e-mail
signatures are easier than you think, and quick to set up.
Watch the demo to see how.
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New Ponemon Study
Shows Data Breach Costs
Up 9 Percent From 2006
Results of the 2007 Annual
Study: Cost of a Data Breach released this week
concluded the total average cost of a data breach grew
to $198 per compromised record, up from $182 in 2006 —
an increase of 9 percent.
According to the study conducted by the Ponemon
Institute, an independent privacy and information
management research firm, lost business continues to
dominate the cost of a data breach growing more than 30
percent since 2006 to $128 per record. Greater customer
turnover and higher costs of new customer acquisition,
due to increased marketing to recover lost customer
business, now accounts for 65% of data breach costs. It
demonstrates that consumers are fed up with companies
that fail to secure their personal information and have
no problem taking their business elsewhere. It also
shows they have not become desensitized by the frequent
reporting of data breach incidents like many companies
have.
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Travel Expense Deduction
Strategies
By Joseph Anthony
Reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center
 When you hit the road for
business trips, you have to know the rules for deducting your hotel
and meal expenses. While the rules haven't changed much lately
(proposals to increase the percentage of a meal that can be deducted
haven't gone anywhere), they're still a little tricky. There
are several different ways to deduct meal and lodging expenses when
you or your employees are on the road. The method you use could make
a difference in terms of how much money -- and time -- you save.
Here's a breakdown:
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10 Tips for Finding
Information on the Internet
 Sometimes
looking for quick information on the Web can be like searching for a
needle in a haystack. With so many billions of Web pages in
cyberspace, finding specific information can be a daunting task.
"Often when I use search engines I get so many irrelevant results
that I just give up," admits a frustrated Lorraine Adams, mother of
two and a disability consultant.
Perhaps Adams isn't
aware that there are ways to get more out of your favorite search
engine, whether that's
Live Search,
Google, or
Yahoo!. A few searching tips, tricks, tweaks, and techniques can
help you find what you are looking for in cyberspace quickly and
easily . Follow these 10 suggestions with your favorite search
engine.
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Gates vs. GM
For
all of us who feel only the deepest love and
affection for the way computers have enhanced
our lives, read on.
At
a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates
reportedly compared the computer industry with
the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up
with technology like the computer industry has,
we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got
1,000 miles to the gallon."
In
response to Bill's comments, General Motors
issued a press release stating: If GM had
developed technology like Microsoft, we would
all be driving cars with the following
characteristics (and we just love this part):
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Take Back
Your Bandwidth
For businesses
today the Internet has evolved from being a
convenience to a business necessity. The
Internet delivers business critical applications,
e-mail, and telephone conversations, while providing
your company’s image to the general public. The Internet
is also often accused of being the biggest productivity
killer for a lot of businesses. The question: Is content
filtering a necessity? Here are three reasons why the
answer is Yes!
Maximize
bandwidth: For most businesses the big bandwidth
hogs are the downloading of large files and the
streaming of music. When either of these activities are
occurring the Internet slows down for everyone. At IT
Solutions we are constantly downloading files that are pertinent
to troubleshooting issues or patching client hardware
and/or software. If there were end users streaming video
or music, then this would make our
engineers battle for bandwidth. By limiting the content
users can download or be streamed on the Internet
bandwidth is then maximized for the entire business.
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The Top 10 Most
Vulnerable Applications for 2007
We've
just released the top 10 list of the most
vulnerable applications for 2007. It is focused
on those applications that users tend to
download. These apps are often very difficult
for IT to see, let alone patch, and therefore
represent unexpected and unquantified
vulnerabilities in an enterprise IT environment.
To
make it onto the list, the following criteria
must be met. Each application:
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Must run on Microsoft Windows
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Must be well-known in the consumer space and
frequently downloaded by individuals
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Must not be classified as malicious by
enterprise IT organizations or security
vendors
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Must contain at least one critical
vulnerability
It
is important to note that in most cases, the
vendor or publisher of the applications on this
list has already produced a patch for the
particular vulnerability or vulnerabilities
reported here. But at a company, there is
usually no way that IT can ensure that the patch
has been properly applied.
1.
Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.239 and earlier
2. Apple QuickTime 7.2
3. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6
4. Microsoft Windows Live (MSN) Messenger 7.0,
8.0
5. EMC VMware Player (and other products) 2.0,
1.0.4
6. Apple iTunes 7.3.2
7. Intuit QuickBooks Online Edition 9 and
earlier
8. Sun Java Runtime 1.6.0_X
9. Yahoo! Widgets 4.0.5 and previous
10. Ask.com Toolbar 4.0.2.53 and previous |
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Ponemon Study