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Sun Microsystems has posted a loss of $US301 million for the fourth quarter, blaming restructuring costs from a tumultuous period of layoffs and plant closings.

Microsoft's Vista developers can't catch a break these days. After years of warnings from security researchers that old code in Windows was creating security risks, the software giant decided to rewrite key parts of the operating system.

Attackers have found another hole in Microsoft's Office products. On Thursday, Symantec reported that it has discovered a targeted attack that takes advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's PowerPoint software.

Microsoft on Tuesday released its monthly round of security patches, fixing a number of widely reported bugs in its Excel and Office products.

The creator of a widely used hacking tool has promised to publish details on one browser vulnerability per day for the month of July.

Microsoft is warning users of malicious software that could be used to attack Windows systems that lack the company's latest security updates.

Security firms are warning about the availability of attack code targeting some of the flaws for which Microsoft released patches Tuesday.

Microsoft plans to patch a newly discovered hole in Microsoft Word in its next monthly patch update, and may release a rare "out of cycle" patch to address the hole, a company spokesman said.

Microsoft is set to release five security patches for its products next Tuesday, including a highly anticipated Internet Explorer (IE) fix that will address a bug that hackers have been exploiting over the past two weeks. Along with the critical IE patch, Microsoft will repair three other issues in its Windows operating system, as well as an unspecified problem in Office that is rated moderate.

The growing number of zero-day exploits seeking to take advantage of unpatched security flaws in Microsoft's products is exposing some of the limitations of the company's monthly software update schedule, IT managers and analysts said last week.

With Microsoft saying that it may wait until April 11 to patch a critical vulnerability in its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, security vendor eEye Digital Security has released what it calls a "temporary" patch to address the problem.