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Microsoft to Beta MBSA 2, Student 2006

By David Worthington | Published April 26, 2005, 5:06 PM

Microsoft has issued beta invitations to testers for Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0 (MBSA 2.0) and Microsoft Student 2006. MBSA 2.0 is a free vulnerability assessment tool designed for IT professionals built with the Windows Update Services infrastructure.

No specific areas of improvement for MBSA 2.0 has been released at this time. The beta will officially begin on May 16, 2005 and is expected to continue into July. A Microsoft spokesperson would not provide further details.

Microsoft Student 2006 is an assorted package of resources for students enrolled in middle-school through the beginning years of college. Some are these resources include: a world atlas for geography; a graphing calculator and chart maker for math and sciences; book summaries, a dictionary, Thesaurus and Translation Tools for literature.

Student 2006 also includes the full Encarta Premium 2006 release and Web companion to scour encyclopedia content from Internet.

Interested students can apply to the beta test by completing a nomination survey at Beta Place using the Guest ID: StudentBeta06. Testers will be admitted into the program based upon survey results.

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mjm01010101
Apr 26, 2005 - 11:14 PM

It's still buggy, locks up clients when run across even small sites. Doesn't fully crash the machine, but locks up explorer hard IME for 10-20 minutes.

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