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This cumulative security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The more severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.

This security update is rated Critical for all supported releases of Internet Explorer. Customers who have not enabled automatic updating need to check for updates and install this update manually. Go to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002.

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Tomorrow is Data Privacy Day 2010 and Microsoft is releasing the results of a study it commissioned in France, Germany, the U.K., and the United States to find out how people manage the information that they and others place on the Internet. The same research also studied how hiring managers and recruiters use this information to investigate job applicants and to what extent the data they find has a bearing on their hiring decisions.

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Mitch

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This set of virtual machines enables you to demonstrate and test Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in a fully configured environment with sample data. In order to run this demo you will need the following:

·       Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled

·       NTFS drive formatting

·       Intel VT- or AMD-V-capable processor

·       8 GB RAM or more recommended

·       50 GB hard disk space required for install

Download the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta)

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