What's New - Aug 20, 2008

By: Benjamin Martin - Revised: 2008-10-24 richard

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Introduction

What's new for the Mac in the previous month:
  • General issues, workarounds and fixes
  • New Software and hardware
  • Software and hardware updates/patches
  • Apple Inc. related news

Contents

  • Agenda
  • Security Update 2008-005
  • Microsoft Office
  • iPhone News
  • MobileMe
  • Humor

Agenda

  • What's New
    • Ben Martin ~ U of U
  • MacBU Update
    • Mike Tedesco - Sr. Product Manager, Mac Business Unit, Microsoft
  • VMWare Fusion & Server Overview
    • Peter Kazanjy of VMWare

Security Update 2008-005

Reference: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2647

  • BIND (DNS cache poisoning)
  • Disk Utility
    • Repair permissions /usr/bin/emacs setuid
  • OpenLDAP
  • OpenSSL
  • PHP

Microsoft Office

Reference: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/34058

  • Office 12.1.2
    • Word launches faster
    • Security, stability and reliability improved all around
  • Office 11.5.1
    • Security
    • Word reliability

iPhone News


MobileMe