When you have a file that has the owner as TrustedInstaller you can not assign any rights to that file unless you take ownership.  To do that with what you need to do ist the following:

• Right Click on the properties and go to the secruity tab
• Create a new owner for the file Everyone
• Assign the rights to the file

Now you have ownership and you can do anything that you want to the file.

Analysts say Microsoft will probably raise its bid, originally valued at $31 a share, to at least $35, but could be persuaded to go as high as $40. Yahoo's statement did not suggest what price its board was seeking.

The proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo! and our stockholders, the Chief Executive wrote in an e-mail to employees on Monday. We believe the Microsoft proposal substantially undervalues Yahoo!

Yahoo said the offer did not properly assess its global brand, its audience of some 500 million users worldwide and investments in its online advertising platform.

The offer also does not take into account growth prospects or substantial holdings, which include a stake in Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba.com, the company said. Yahoo said its board was evaluating all its strategic options.

Microsoft now must decide whether to sweeten its offer, launch a proxy fight or simply withdraw. A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment.

The most likely outcome is they negotiate a higher price, said an analyst with William Blair & Co. It seems Microsoft has expressed a willingness to go to $35 or $36 a share.

A more hostile alternative could be to propose a tender offer to buy shares directly from Yahoo shareholders, although Yahoo could use a "poison pill" defense to dilute the stock holdings purchased in the market by an unwanted aggressor.

(Microsoft - Vista Blog)  Here is the timing for SP1 availability for current Windows Vista users:

• In mid-March, Microsoft will release Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update (in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) and to the download center on microsoft.com.  Customers who visit Windows Update can choose to install Service Pack 1.  If Windows Update determines that the system has one of the drivers we know to be problematic, then Windows Update will not offer SP1.  Since we know that some customers may want to update to SP1 anyhow, the download center will allow anyone who wants to install SP1 to do so.
• In mid-April, Microsoft will begin delivering Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Vista customers who have chosen to have updates downloaded automatically.  That said, any system that Windows Update determines has a driver known to not update successfully will not get SP1 automatically.  As updates for these drivers become available, they will be installed automatically by Windows Update, which will unblock these systems from getting Service Pack 1.  The result is that more and more systems will automatically get SP1, but only when Microsoft is confident they will have a good experience.
• The remaining languages will RTM in April.

The notice followed a dustup earlier this month over new security settings in Office 2003 SP3 that blocked access to a swath of older file formats. After users complained on the company's support forums, and a software rival asked why its files were being barred, Microsoft apologized and posted work-arounds to make it easier for users to unblock the formats.

Today, Microsoft announced that it would add Office 2003 SP3 to its Microsoft Update listings beginning Feb. 27. Microsoft Update, a companion service to Windows Update, downloads patches and other fixes for the operating system as well as a number of the company's applications, notably Office.

(New York Times) INNOVATION usually needs time to steep. Time to turn the idea into something tangible, time to get it to market, time for people to decide they accept it. Speech recognition technology has steeped for a long time: Mike Phillips remembers that in the 1980s, when he was a Carnegie Mellon graduate student trying to develop rudimentary speech recognition systems, “it seemed almost impossible.”

Now, devices that incorporate speech recognition are starting to hit the mass market, thanks to entrepreneurs like Mr. Phillips. He is the chief technology officer and a co-founder of the Vlingo Corporation, an 18-month-old start-up in Cambridge, Mass., that is selling services to cellular carriers and other software companies that want to give their customers the ability to let their mouths do the walking — and the searching.

VlingoÂ’s service lets people talk naturally, rather than making them use a limited number of set phrases. Dave Grannan, the companyÂ’s chief executive, demonstrated the Vlingo Find application by asking his phone for a song by Mississippi John Hurt (try typing that with your thumbs), for the location of a local bakery and for a Web search for a consumer product. It was all fast and efficient. Vlingo is designed to adapt to the voice of its primary user, but I was also able to use Mr. GrannanÂ’s phone to find an address.

The Find application is in the beta test phase at AT&T and Sprint. Consumers who use certain cellphones from those companies can download the application from vlingo.com.

Mr. Phillips has spent more than 15 years in the trenches at companies that nourished speech recognition. In 1994, he was one of the founders of Speechworks, which made early interactive voice-response systems, the now-ubiquitous automated services that answer when we call a company. In 2000, Speechworks was acquired by ScanSoft, which five years later bought Nuance Communications, keeping Nuance as the name. Mr. Phillips left that year to work at M.I.T. as a visiting researcher.

In 2006, he and a colleague from ScanSoft, John Nguyen, started Vlingo because they thought that speech recognition technology, cellular networks and phones were all becoming powerful enough to allow voice navigation systems on cellphones. “We couldn’t have done this five years ago,” he says.

Now, Mr. Phillips is in a race for market share. Another start-up, Yap Inc., based in Charlotte, N.C., is running a beta test of its service, which is similar to VlingoÂ’s but already has text messaging. Igor and Victor Jablokov, YapÂ’s co-founders, decided to start the company because they saw their teenage sister text-messaging while in a car.

She wasnÂ’t driving at the time, but Igor Jablokov says cellular companies tell him in meetings that two-thirds of their teenage customers have either sent or read a text message while behind the wheel.

Big companies are also attracted to this market. Nuance started its Nuance Voice Control system last August, the same month that VlingoÂ’s appeared. NuanceÂ’s system is in use at Sprint and Rogers Communications and can be downloaded to 66 models of hand-held phones, with many more on the way.

Microsoft is a significant potential competitor, thanks in part to its purchase of TellMe Networks last March. TellMe offers a speech-driven search application for cellphones that is available to customers of AT&T — only those who were part of Cingular before the merger — and Sprint. TellMe’s system is built-in on the new Mysto phone from Helio, a mobile phone operator started by Earthlink and SK Telecom, and is the engine for 1800call411, a free directory information service.

Over all, speech recognition was a $1.6 billion market in 2007, according to Opus Research, which predicts an annual growth rate of 14.5 percent over the next three years. Dan Miller, an analyst at Opus, said that companies that have licensed speech recognition technology would probably see faster revenue growth, as more consumers used the technology. The cellphone market holds the most potential, given its billions of phones, but cellular providers are still working out the business model for such services.

Igor Jablokov, YapÂ’s chief executive, says that he wants his application to be supported by advertising, but that the carriers with whom he is negotiating, which he declined to name, want to charge customers for the service.

To be sure, speech recognition technology has been available on personal computers since 2001 in applications like Microsoft Office, but few people use it. But in cellphone and other markets, speech recognition “is on the cusp of a curve,” says Bill Meisel, editor of Speech Strategy News, an industry newsletter.

Speech recognition, already used in high-end G.P.S. systems and luxury cars from Cadillac and Lexus, is now spreading to less expensive systems and cars — witness those slapstick Ford Sync commercials, featuring vignettes like one showing a young woman who approaches her office building and says “door open,” expecting it to respond the way her car does. It doesn’t, and she and her coffee cup smack directly into it.

Sync was developed by Microsoft and Ford, and based on Nuance technology. And the speech technology chief at I.B.M. Research, David Nahamoo, says the company has an automotive customer testing speech recognition to help drivers find songs quickly while driving — no more pushing buttons.

Then there’s SimulScribe, a New York company that is one of several businesses using speech recognition to convert voice mail into e-mail. “Voice recognition has finally hit the point where someone like ourselves can take it over the hump for specific applications,” says James Siminoff, SimulScribe’s chief executive.

James R. Glass, a principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T., says speech technology “is going to end up everywhere speech can be useful.” He says machines will keep improving their ability to recognize the way humans naturally talk, even if they have strong accents, and that the technology will find myriad new uses.

THIS doesnÂ’t mean that people will always choose to speak. Genevieve Bell, director of user experience at the digital home group of Intel, says people are unlikely to want to use speech recognition to handle their finances, at least in public spaces. It also may not work well in the living room.

Ms. Bell jokes that if she could, she would yell “cricket!” at the television anytime she walked into a room, so her favorite sport would appear on the screen.

Even a digital expert like her cautions that some people may never be satisfied with the quality of speech recognition technology — thanks to a steady diet of fictional books, movies and television shows featuring machines that understand everything a person says, no matter how sharp the diction or how loud the ambient noise. But soon we will be able to speak our minds to many of our machines, and have them obey our commands.

First, letÂ’s look at the impact of defense-in-depth features like User Account Control and Internet Explorer Protected Mode.  These features have helped reduce both the risk and severity of security bulletins, giving enterprises more time to deploy patches:

•       Running as standard user, which is the recommended configuration and made easier in Windows Vista thanks to User Account Control, helps reduce the impact of any particular vulnerability.  Of the 23 security bulletins that have been released for Windows Vista through January 2008, 12 specifically call out a lower impact for those running without administrative privileges:  MS07-033, 034, 040, 042, 045, 047, 048, 050, 057, 064, 068, and 069.  This is a great illustration of the importance of User Account Control and why we included it in the product.  ItÂ’s also the reason I personally run as a standard user on every machine I use.

•       Because of IE Protected Mode, the MS07-056 bulletin from October Â’07 was rated important on Windows Vista and critical on Windows XP.  The bulletin rating helps organizations determine the urgency with which they need to deploy the update.  Fewer critical updates help organizations maintain regular processes around patch management.

Internet Explorer 7, which is the default browser in Windows Vista, also helps protect the personal information of end users.  WeÂ’re seeing almost 1 million phishing attempts blocked per week, representing a large number of potential cases of identity theft or credit card fraud that were stopped.  In addition, there are over 3500 sites with Extended Validation SSL Certificates (EV SSL) representing an improved level of authentication for securing transactions on these sites.   Internet Explorer 7 is the first browser to fully support EV SSL.  It turns the address bar green for EV SSL sites and notifies users about the available identity information so they can make better trust decisions when entering sensitive personal information while online. 

Next, letÂ’s look at patch events, vulnerabilities and infections.  WeÂ’re showing steady positive progress in this area.   When looking at Windows Vista compared to Windows XP, weÂ’ve seen:

•       An important metric for IT professionals is the concept of patch events, which is discussed in the One Year Vulnerability Report released today by MicrosoftÂ’s Jeff Jones. During Windows XPÂ’s first year, updates were released on 26 separate days.  Through a combination of the move to a predictable monthly release schedule, and decreased vulnerabilities, Windows Vista had updates released on just nine days in its first year.  To the average security professional, this is one of the most relevant metrics:  how many times did I have to activate my internal patch management process due to vendor update releases over the course of a year?  Nine times is much more attractive, and cost effective, than 26 times.  Jeff JonesÂ’ one year report goes into this in area in more detail, and the graph below from his report shows the patch events during the first year of Windows Vista and Windows XP:

•       Fewer vulnerabilities:   Also from the  One Year Vulnerability Report, we see that Windows Vista in its first year had significantly fewer fixed and unfixed vulnerabilities than Windows XP in its first year: 36 fixed/30 unfixed for Windows Vista vs. 68 fixed/54 unfixed for Windows XP.   The chart below gives you an idea of the progress weÂ’ve made:

•       Fewer months with updates:  Building on the concept of patch events, since Windows Vista was released, there were three months in which Windows XP had updates and Windows Vista did not  (December Â’06, January Â’07, and November Â’07).  This means that an organization running all Windows Vista clients would have had three months in which they wouldnÂ’t have had to deploy an OS update to their clients at all.

Fewer infections:  From January – June 2007, there were 60% fewer malware infections and 2.8 times less potentially unwanted software on Windows Vista than on Windows XP SP2, according to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report from 10/07. This illustrates how the defense in depth features built in to Windows Vista help prevent machines from getting infected by malicious and potentially unwanted software.

Finally, what does Windows Vista do to help organizations reduce costs?  A recent Microsoft commissioned report from GCR on cost savings for mobile PCs shows $251/machine per year in cost savings for Windows Vista, of which $55/machine per year was attributed to security and data protection features such as User Account Control and BitLocker Drive Encryption.

WeÂ’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: our job with security is never finished.  But, the focus we put on engineering for security, the backing of the world-class security response process delivered by the Microsoft Security Response Center, and the defense in depth approach of Windows Vista are showing  real-world benefits for customers and thatÂ’ something I take pride in. 

Beginning immediately, Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium can be run in a virtualized environment, Microsoft said Monday. The pair are the cheapest editions of the operating system available at retail, selling in full versions for $199 and $239, respectively. Previously, Microsoft only allowed Vista Business ($299) and Vista Ultimate ($399) to be installed in a virtual machine (VM).

In June 2007, Microsoft nearly pulled the same trigger -- it actually briefed reporters before backtracking -- but did not say why it had changed its mind. At the time, it only issued a terse statement through its public relations company: "Microsoft has reassessed the Windows virtualization policy and decided that we will maintain the original policy announced last fall." Seven months ago, however, some analysts pegged problems with Vista's digital rights management (DRM) software for the hesitation.

The only change Microsoft needed to make was to the end-user licensing agreements (EULA) of Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium; there has never been a technical barrier to virtualizing either version on the Mac or any other platform.

According to a blog by ZDNet.com's Mary Jo Foley, a Microsoft representative said the build contained a number of bugs that testers encountered in previous prerelease versions of SP1.

The update is largely a collection of bug fixes and performance and compatibility improvements, but includes some minor new features.

SP1 RC Refresh, as the update is known, requires previous versions of SP1 to be uninstalled before it can be replaced with Refresh, which may entail waiting for the computer to "reboot multiple times," according to Microsoft.

After multiple rebooting, a period of an hour is required to allow the installer service to "clean up and complete the uninstall" to prevent possible installation errors.

Those with Vista RTM need to install two to three updates, depending on their version of Vista, before they can welcome SP1 onto their computer.

Refresh is time-limited, with the deadline for uninstall being June 30, 2008. According to Foley, Microsoft still aims to have the official version of SP1 available within the first quarter of 2008.

On its Web site, Microsoft warned that it does not recommend installing this software on primary or mission-critical systems.