Many unsuspecting people were surprised and excited to see early downloads of the new Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The new Service Pack was not supposed to be released until the middle of March – but due to certain glitches it was released early.
“A build of SP1 was posted to Windows Update and it was inadvertently made available to a broad group,” Microsoft said in a statement. “The build was intended only for our more technically advanced testers, and was meant to only be offered to those with a specific registry key set on their PC. For general availability, we are still planning to make SP1 broadly available in the mid-March timeframe.”
Lawmakers have created a bill that will keep sexual predators away from Facebook and Myspace. The bill allows for the e-mail address and restricted use of the internet against the serious sex offenders. The initiative behind the bill is called the Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act or E-Stop. The legislation restricts certain sex offenders’ (high risk Level 3 offenders defined as those offenders with a “high risk to commit another sex crime) use of the Internet, updating Megan’s Law “for the Internet age.”
It looks like Microsoft is back under the microscope – but this time by Europe’s new antitrust investigators. The European Commission believes that the company may be violating monopoly laws by failing to make its products interoperable with competitors’ offerings and by illegally bundling its Internet Explorer Web browser with the Windows operating system.