Microsoft Leaves Windows 7 Vulnerable

One of the things about Microsoft is that they do some absurd things to promote their new operating systems. The recent blunder that the company did was releasing a patch for fixing the issues with their latest Windows 8.x franchise leaving behind their most popular operating system Windows 7. According to the latest surveys, even after the release of the Windows 8.1 operating system, Windows 7 holds more than fifty percent of the market. The fact was found by two independent security researchers, who built a tool to test the Windows 7 vs Windows 8 libraries.

After comparing about 900 libraries, the researchers were able to conclude that while Microsoft patched the security issues with zero day attacks on Windows 8 operating system, they have left their popular operating system Windows 7 ajar. One of the security researchers, Moti Joseph commented on the issue as follows, "If Microsoft added a safe function in Windows 8, why does it not exist in Windows 7? The answer is simple, it’s money -- Microsoft does not want to waste development time on older operating systems. They want people to move to higher operating systems."

In their Windows 7 vs Windows 8 analysis of different libraries in the operating systems, they were able to find that four security functions were updated in Widows 8 while the Windows 7 libraries were left untouched. The researchers stated that it is simple to create the tools and Governments or hackers could make use of the tool for getting information from Windows 7 devices. If the hackers find the missing patches in Windows 7, they would be able to exploit the issue for their needs. If you consider the stake here, it is better to either release a patch for Windows 7 or upgrade to Windows 8.

When we approached Microsoft for commenting on the allegations, the company spokesperson stated as follows, "We follow an extensive process to develop security updates for all supported devices and services, involving a thorough investigation, update development, and testing for compatibility among other operating systems and applications. We are continually working to improve our products and we encourage researchers to coordinate vulnerability disclosure with Microsoft in order to help protect customers.”

With the company intimidated about the issue, we can hope that the patch for Windows 7 would be soon released and the issue will be fixed.

Using Microsoft Outlook Rules

Microsoft Outlook is considered one of the most advanced and user-friendly applications, owing to a number of sophisticated features available in the program. The main Outlook features include a calendar, journals, task manager etc. that enable the users to successfully schedule their appointments and also remember the important days in their day-to-day life. In short, one can say that Outlook is a must have application for all business professionals. There is also a dedicated customer service team by the name Outlook problems and help support that troubleshoots and fixes the issues related to this application.

In addition to this, the email program also serves as an excellent personal information manager for the users. This means that the application stores the contact and personal information of the users in specific folders. In Outlook, you can also use rules while organizing the information. This would help you to sort the emails into folders based on different aspects that will help you to know about the sender of the email, type of messages, primary recipient on the email etc. In addition to this, you can also use this option to flag messages you receive from specific people in your Outlook application.

If you don’t know how to make rules in Microsoft Outlook, you can use the following instructions provided by the Outlook help and support team.

• In the first step, you need to click on Tools followed by Rules and Alerts and then on New Rule. Here, you can click on Start From a Blank Rule option. 
• Now, you need to select the Check Messages option after Sending and then click on Next. Make sure you check off with specific words in the subject. Once you have entered it, click on specific words and decide on a distinct keyword for your rule. Now, Click on Add, OK and then on Next. Meanwhile, you can also call up the Outlook help number anytime to get more information on using the Rules option in your Microsoft Outlook program. 
• Now, you need to uncheck ‘move a copy to the specified folder’ and then click on the specific folder. You can choose it from the available list of options and then click on Finish. 

By following these steps, you can use the rules option in Microsoft Outlook application. If you’d like to know more about the Outlook features, feel free to contact our Outlook technical support team.