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The Encoders C Series is ready. This section contains a set of 51 C programs demonstrating all the fundamental concepts of ANSI C.

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Microsoft's 'Longhorn' becomes Windows Vista
Microsoft has announced the official name for its operating system, previously known under the code name "Longhorn." The operating system, due out in 2006, will now be known as Windows Vista with the tag line, "Bringing clarity to your world." The software giant also revealed beta 1 of Windows Vista will be available to developers and IT professionals in less than two weeks on Aug. 3. The first beta will include only some of Vista's promised functionality, such as virtual folders and a new desktop search engine, but will not include much of the graphical user interface (GUI) enhancements of the finished product, said Greg Sullivan, a group product manager with Windows Client for Microsoft. Those features will be available in beta 2, Sullivan said, but did not disclose a time frame for that release, saying that depends on the feedback Microsoft receives about beta 1. Microsoft is also widely expected to release more Vista bits to developers at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles in mid-September, but Sullivan said it has not been decided whether or not this will occur. "There will certainly be more disclosure on features that will be added post beta 1 [at the PDC]," he said. Microsoft first disclosed the official name for the next version of Windows Thursday at its annual sales meeting, Microsoft Global Business (MGB), in a presentation by Brian Valentine, senior vice president of the Windows Core Operating System Division. The company made that name change public in a webcast Friday.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

MS05-035 Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution
If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. 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.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-035.mspx

MS05-036 Vulnerability in Microsoft Color Management Module Could Allow Remote Code Execution
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Color Management Module because of the way that it handles ICC profile format tag validation. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. 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.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-036.mspx

Microsoft Rewards Sasser Worm Informants:
Microsoft Corp. will pay a combined $250,000 to two people who helped track down the author of the Sasser Internet worm, which infected computers around the globe, the world's largest software maker said on Friday. A German court hours earlier gave Sven Jaschan a suspended sentence of 21 months after he admitted creating the malicious software program. Jaschan, 19, was arrested within a week after the Sasser worm first appeared on the Internet in May 2004 and infected more than a million computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system. The two individuals, who were not identified, will share the reward, which Microsoft established with Interpol, the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service. Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, has been trying to make its software more secure and reliable, and has also vowed to go after hackers and others who create worms and malicious software viruses by offering bounties and also suing them in court. In January, Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle to a year-and-a-half in prison for releasing a variant of the Blaster worm that was used to attack more than 48,000 computers.