Consumer response plays a major role in nearly any business plan. Take, for instance, Microsoft’s original licensing for its new 2013 office suite. Microsoft thought it was a great idea to put strict limits; the consumers did not. Multitudes of disgruntled Microsoft Office users ultimately have caused Micro-soft to change its mind about the transferability of MS Office 2013.
Originally, Microsoft set the software to only be tied to a single machine for the life of that computer. As of March 6, the office suite now is able to be transferred to another machine once every 90 days.
According to the Micro-soft blog post, “This change is effective immediately and applies to Office Home and Student 2013, Office Home and Business 2013, Office Professional 2013 and the standalone Office 2013 applications.”
Learn more at http:// blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2013/03/06/office-2013-retail-license-agreement-now-transferable.aspx.
Security updates
Microsoft released seven security bulletins to fix flaws in its software for its March security updates. Four bulletins were rated critical and the remaining three were rated important.
Among the flaws, three could enable an attacker to execute remote code on a compromised system, two could elevate privilege, and the final two flaws could cause information disclosure.
Programs affected by the flaws include all currently-supported versions of Windows operating system; Internet Explorer versions 6-10; Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 SP1 (32- and 64-bit Editions); Microsoft Visio 2010 SP1 (32- and 64-bit editions); Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack SP1 (32- and 64-bit versions); Microsoft OneNote 2010 SP1 (32- and 64-bit editions); Microsoft Office 2008 and 2011 for Mac; Microsoft Silverlight 5; Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1; and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1.
Read more at http:// technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ ms13-mar.
Gamers’ alert
Stacksocial is offering “The Name Your Own Price Indie Gamer Bundle.” Gamers can get three indie games that work on both PC and Mac platforms while donating to a charity and picking their own price.
The three charities are Child’s Play, the World Wildlife Fund and Creative Commons. The games include The Journey Down, Aztaka, and iBomber Defense.
Paying more than the average price, which was about $4 at the time of this writing, gets you three extra games, including Blades of Time, SpaceChem, and Cubemen.
Get all the details at https://stacksocial.com/ sales/the-name-your-own-price-gamer-bundle.
Roku corner
Read more on Roku’s blog at http://blog.roku. com/blog/2013/03/05/twc-tv-launches-on-roku or learn more about the TWC TV channel at www.timewarnercable.com/en/ residential-home/tv/ features/twc-tv.html.
Learn more about the iHeartRadio channel at www.roku.com/channels/ #!details/20197/iheart radio.
E-mail me at sheila@amnews.com; fax me at (859) 236-9566; or write me snail mail at The Advocate-Messenger, P.O. Box 149, Danville, KY 40423-0149.
Originally, Microsoft set the software to only be tied to a single machine for the life of that computer. As of March 6, the office suite now is able to be transferred to another machine once every 90 days.
According to the Micro-soft blog post, “This change is effective immediately and applies to Office Home and Student 2013, Office Home and Business 2013, Office Professional 2013 and the standalone Office 2013 applications.”
Learn more at http:// blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2013/03/06/office-2013-retail-license-agreement-now-transferable.aspx.
Security updates
Microsoft released seven security bulletins to fix flaws in its software for its March security updates. Four bulletins were rated critical and the remaining three were rated important.
Among the flaws, three could enable an attacker to execute remote code on a compromised system, two could elevate privilege, and the final two flaws could cause information disclosure.
Programs affected by the flaws include all currently-supported versions of Windows operating system; Internet Explorer versions 6-10; Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 SP1 (32- and 64-bit Editions); Microsoft Visio 2010 SP1 (32- and 64-bit editions); Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack SP1 (32- and 64-bit versions); Microsoft OneNote 2010 SP1 (32- and 64-bit editions); Microsoft Office 2008 and 2011 for Mac; Microsoft Silverlight 5; Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1; and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1.
Read more at http:// technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ ms13-mar.
Gamers’ alert
Stacksocial is offering “The Name Your Own Price Indie Gamer Bundle.” Gamers can get three indie games that work on both PC and Mac platforms while donating to a charity and picking their own price.
The three charities are Child’s Play, the World Wildlife Fund and Creative Commons. The games include The Journey Down, Aztaka, and iBomber Defense.
Paying more than the average price, which was about $4 at the time of this writing, gets you three extra games, including Blades of Time, SpaceChem, and Cubemen.
Get all the details at https://stacksocial.com/ sales/the-name-your-own-price-gamer-bundle.
Roku corner
- n Time Warner Cable’s Roku channel is now on Roku. According to the Roku blog post, the TWC TV channel enables current Time Warner cable subscribers to view up to 300 live TV channels such as Animal Planet, Bravo, Food Network and HGTV via their Roku box. This also will help those subscribers save money by eliminating the fee for an extra cable box. The channel is available in the Roku Channel Store.
Read more on Roku’s blog at http://blog.roku. com/blog/2013/03/05/twc-tv-launches-on-roku or learn more about the TWC TV channel at www.timewarnercable.com/en/ residential-home/tv/ features/twc-tv.html.
- n The iHeartRadio channel has arrived in the Roku Channel Store. This channel is a free, digital radio service offering more than 1,500 live, commercial-free stations. The channel is supported on Roku 2 models, Roku LT, the 2012 Roku HD, the Roku Streaming Stick and Roku 3.
Learn more about the iHeartRadio channel at www.roku.com/channels/ #!details/20197/iheart radio.
E-mail me at sheila@amnews.com; fax me at (859) 236-9566; or write me snail mail at The Advocate-Messenger, P.O. Box 149, Danville, KY 40423-0149.
