Microsoft Blue Hat Prize Contest for Hackers

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WHY MICROSOFT IS DOING THIS?

The Microsoft BlueHat Prize contest is designed to generate new ideas for defensive approaches to support computer security. As part of our commitment to a more secure computing experience, we hope to inspire security researchers to develop innovative solutions intended to address serious security threats.

WHAT IS THE CONTEST?

The inaugural Microsoft BlueHat Prize contest challenges security researchers to design a novel runtime mitigation technology designed to prevent the exploitation of memory safety vulnerabilities. The solution considered to be the most innovative by the Microsoft BlueHat Prize board will be presented the grand prize of US $200,000. Important information:

• Entries will be accepted and must be received by email to bluehatprize@microsoft.com between August 3, 2011 to midnight Pacific Time on April 1, 2012.
• The winning entry will be announced at Black Hat USA 2012.
• Submitters retain all rights to the intellectual property in the content they submit and Microsoft has the right to license that content.

YOU COULD WIN

• First prize: $200,000 (USD)
• Second prize: $50,000 (USD)
• Third prize: MSDN Universal subscription valued at $10,000 (USD)

HOW TO ENTER?

• To enter, send an email to bluehatprize@microsoft.com include your technical description and prototype as outlined in the official rules.
• The Microsoft BlueHat Prize board will reply with additional information applicants will need to submit a complete entry.

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3 Ways to Open MS Excel 2007 Files in MS Excel 2003

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In MS Excel 2003 the extension of files is .xls but after the release of MS Excel 2007 ,Microsoft changed the extension of .xlsx and now we can't open the MS Excel 2007 Files in MS Excel 2003 Software,which causes a lot of trouble sometimes and there's a need to resolve this problem. So today I am going to share some ways through which we can easily open Excel 2007 file in Excel 2003. So here are some ways to do it :

Microsoft Compatibility Pack

Microsoft was also aware of this issue and was continuously getting negative response from the users,so they thought of making some bridge between between them and this gives birth to Microsoft Compatibility Pack . Through this pack you can save ,edit and convert your file from 2007 to 2003 easily.This pack also converts MS Word 2007 files into 2003 files.

Open Office Software

Open Office is a free software which is used to open the MS Excel files if you dont have the MS Excel 2007 software. Its an open Source Software from Sun Microsystems. It also has many other features like you can easily make presentations on it.

Excel Viewer

Excel Viewer is another product of microsoft which is used to open excel files of any format,if you dont have the MS Excel software.

Hope you guys like it .... Tell us which method among them you like the most :>

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