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Microsoft Interactive Classroom

by certifiedbug on August 16, 2010

in Microsoft

Posted at Microsoft’s Download Center 8/13/2010.

Microsoft Interactive Classroom helps interaction and collaboration between educators and students by enabling the creation of classroom polls using PowerPoint, and sharing content with students using OneNote. Educators can insert a multiple choice, yes/no, or true/false polling questions to lessons using PowerPoint. Students who have laptops running Microsoft Windows and OneNote receive the polling questions and teacher annotations in real-time within their OneNote Notebook. In addition, students can add their own notes to the slides using the features provided in OneNote. They can also respond in real-time to the questions during the lesson. Students without laptops can participate in polls using hardware clickers. This gives educators real time feedback on how well their students are grasping their lessons.

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The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Advance Notification. Preliminary information, subject to change.

The August security bulletin release is scheduled for Tuesday, August 10. This month’s release is composed of 14 bulletins addressing 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, SQL, and Silverlight. Eight of the bulletins carry a Critical severity rating, and six are rated Important.

The August edition of the monthly bulletin webcast will be held on Wednesday August 11 at 11:00 a.m. PDT (UTC -7)

Register for the webcast here: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032454431

Security Bulletin MS10-046 was released out-of-band 2 Aug 2010 to address a vulnerability in Windows.

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Support for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) ended July 13, 2010

July 14, 2010

If you have an unsupported version of Windows XP or Windows Vista without any service packs, Windows will continue to start and run as usual but you won’t get security updates for Windows. Support for Windows Vista without any service packs ended on April 13, 2010. To continue support, make sure you’ve installed Windows Vista [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2010

July 9, 2010

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Advance Notification. Preliminary information, subject to change. The July security bulletin release is scheduled for Tuesday, July 13 and includes four bulletins addressing five vulnerabilities. Two bulletins, both with a severity rating of Critical, affect Windows. Two of the bulletins affect Microsoft Office; of those, one carries a Critical [...]

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MSRC-Windows Help Vulnerability Disclosure

June 10, 2010

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) 10 Jun 2010 We are aware of a publicly disclosed vulnerability affecting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. We are not aware of any current exploitation of this issue and customers running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2, are not vulnerable to this [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for June 2010

June 3, 2010

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Advance Notification. Preliminary information, subject to change. This month’s release includes ten bulletins addressing 34 vulnerabilities. Six of the bulletins affect Windows; of those, two carry a Critical severity rating and four are rated Important. Two bulletins, both with a severity rating of Important, affect Microsoft Office. One bulletin, [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for May 2010

May 6, 2010

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Advance Notification. Preliminary information, subject to change. Today we published our advance notification for the May security bulletin release letting customers know that next Tuesday, May 11, we will release two Critical bulletins addressing two vulnerabilities – one in Windows and one in Office. Windows 7 and Windows Server [...]

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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 8

April 29, 2010

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) Volume 8 covers July 2009 through December 2009, 248 pages of in-depth information addressing such topics as software vulnerability disclosures, exploits and malware. Key findings and detailed analysis for 26 countries around the globe: http://www.microsoft.com/security/about/sir.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/archive/2010/04/26/announcing-microsoft-security-intelligence-report-volume-8.aspx

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Microsoft re-releasing MS10-025

April 24, 2010

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) MS10-025 is a security update that only affects Windows 2000 Server customers who have installed Windows Media Services (this is a non-default configuration). Today we pulled the update because we found it does not address the underlying issue effectively. We are not aware of any active attacks seeking to [...]

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First Windows Summit

April 13, 2010

The three day event takes place at the Microsoft Conference Center on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, WA May 25–27 and is designed for people who engineer and test Windows 7 PCs, devices, and software. Opening keynote, Tuesday, May 25, 9:15am Michael Angiulo General Manager Windows Planning and PC Ecosystem teams Featured session, Wednesday, May 26, [...]

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