Posts tagged with: microsoft

Links of interest for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009: IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office - Welcome to the party IBM. Sun did this years ago. 99% of people don't use half the functionality in MS Office anyway. Linus calls Linux 'bloated and huge' - ... and it's suffered on average a 2% decrease in performance per release over the last 10 releases making a cumulative drop of 12%. How are the Linux advocates in the corporate world substantiating this drop in performance? Solaris customers certainly wouldn't accept it. Ellison: Sunacle is an IBM killer - `Ellison was adamant:... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 3 Jun 2009 - 14 Jul 2009: "Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?" FUD - Thankfully someone's being sensible about the FUD that made it's way into the news this week. Oracle is not going to kill OpenSolaris. Oracle's Virtualization Gold Mine - Looks like Oracle is counting on Virtualization big time. Time will tell what they do with all their net technology. Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software - Kind of ironic, yet potentially a brilliant business plan: you produce some software that becomes an easy target for viruses, then release your own... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 2 Dec 2008 - 8 Dec 2008: Sun shows Microsoft how it's done - Now I would never had predicted this: someone saying that Sun has done something on the desktop environment better than Microsoft. I must admit the Time Slider is pretty damn awesome and I think it may put Apples Time Machine to shame too. Contributing OpenSolaris Packages at OpenSolaris.org - More information on the new OpenSolaris repositories, how pkgs are being automatically added and how you can contribute to the repository. Webcast of What's New in OpenSolaris 2008.11 - Some cool new features... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 3 Nov 2008 - 10 Nov 2008: Fishworks: Now it can be told : The Observation Deck - Bryan Cantrill's recount of the road to Fishworks and Amber Road. Fishworks Hardware Topology - Eric Schrock gives an intro to the chassi subsystem at the heart of the technology behind the Sun Storage 7000 series. Hybrid Storage Pools in the 7410 : Adam Leventhal's Weblog - Wow, the Fishworks guys have been busy blogging like crazy. Adam's got a great detailed report on the Hybrid Storage Pools in the biggest of the Sun Storage 7000 server -... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 12 Aug 2008 - 3 Sep 2008: Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome - Ooops. How on earth could the Google chaps have missed this one? Google Chrome Considered Harmful - Hmmm, the bad news about Google Chrome is starting to come to light now. Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project - Oooo, sounds like Firefox may have a new competitor. Now how long before we get a Solaris/OpenSolaris version? iPhone passwords not worth the paper they're written on - Ooops. This certainly won't help Apple make inroads into the business market. The latest Xeon and OpenSolaris -... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 30 Apr 2008 - 14 May 2008: Brussels: Uniform Interface to Driver Administration Through dladm(1m) - Finally!!! A unified simple and easy way to configure network interface settings like auto-neg, duplex, mtu etc on Solaris. Currently only in OpenSolaris and Nevada though. OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up - Great plug for OpenSolaris 2008.05 that has just been released. Microsoft Has Developed Windows Forensic Analysis Tool for Police - A bit more on the COFEE tool - looks like it's just MS bundling up a bunch of freely available tools in an... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 1 Feb 2008 - 14 Feb 2008: Major Linux security hole found - Ooops. This is going to be around for some time and I wouldn't be surpised if a worm is created to capitalise on this vulnerability in the not too distant future. How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people - Just goes to show how fragile the internet really is. Given that it only took a ship to take out most of the emerging markets, imagine the chaos terrorists could cause if they took out the cables for the... Continue reading ►

It looks like Microsoft's Vista is hitting rejection from a big customer already. The US Department of Transport has banned any installation of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7.

It's been less than a week since Windows Vista hit the shelves and we're already hearing of problems and new bugs. Today the tech news sites are all getting very excited about the new vulnerability in Vista's Speech Command utility, purely from a "Oooh, a vulnerability ALREADY" perspective, but no one has given a moment's thought for those that this bug poses a major problem. Continue reading ►

Is this a hint at things to come following the Microsoft-Novell deal?