http://rcpmag.com/news/Redmond Channel Partner magazine: Driving Success in the Microsoft Partner Community. News from RCPmag.comen-us(c) 1996-2006 1105 Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved.News780Security software vendor PC Tools on Friday fired the latest salvo in the argument over whether Windows Vista is as secure as Microsoft says it is. http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9867http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9867#1Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft and One Laptop per Child announced an agreement Thursday to put Windows XP Professional on OLPC XO laptops in emerging markets along with Linux.http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9868http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9868#2Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTThe Bush administration's economic-stimulus tax rebate program, under which the Internal Revenue Service is issuing taxpayers payments of as much as $1,200, has given rise to a new wave of phishing scams, according to a new FBI notice.http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9860http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9860#3Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft on Tuesday released Service Pack 1 for Office 2008 for Mac, the first major update to what the company called its most successful Mac Office launch in 19 years (in terms of sales volume).http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9861http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9861#4Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTCorporate raider Carl Icahn plans to replace Yahoo's entire 10-member board with the intention of compelling a sale of the company to Microsoft, according to an open letter sent today to Yahoo's Chairman Roy Bostock.http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9862http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9862#5Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft last week released a beta version of its Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool on the Microsoft Connect site. http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9863http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9863#6Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTAccording to survey results released yesterday by Santa Cruz, Calif.-based research firm Evans Data, only eight percent of developers in North America are currently developing applications to run on Microsoft Vista, even though the operating system has been live now for 15 months. http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9864http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9864#7Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTA former Microsoft employee appears to be coming to the rescue of those suffering from the XP SP3 endless reboot cycle that can happen on computers with AMD processorshttp://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9865http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9865#8Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTThe Wall Street Journal reported today that investor Carl Icahn purchased about 50 million shares of Yahoo (3.5 percent of total shares) following Microsoft's failed acquisition bid for the company, citing an unnamed source.http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9857http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9857#9Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft and some independent security researchers had the blogosphere buzzing Wednesday over a series of denunciations after one company claimed that Vista was more vulnerable to malware and other exploits than previous operating systems.http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9858http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9858#10Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT