Is there a worse IT job in the world than being a Microsoft security fixer-upper? First, you have to deal with the fact that Windows itself is insecure by design. That’s bad enough. But, then when you do get something right, like this week’s Patch Tuesday pack of patches, you’re hit on the same day [...]
Elliot Associates L.P., a hedge fund, which claims to already own 8.5% of Novell’s stock made an unsolicited bid to buy the Linux company lock, stock, and code for $1.8 billion on March 2nd. This move may be good for Novell stock owners, but I fear it may be death for Novell’s commercial SUSE Linux [...]
My good buddy Preston Gralla would have it that “Windows doesn’t just dominate the desktop, but the server market as well.” Eh… I don’t think so.
For proof, Gralla points to the latest IDC (International Data Corporation’) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. This report covers the worldwide server market’s factory revenue.
What Gralla and other people miss is [...]
Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but yet another Internet Explorer security hole has been revealed. Is there no end to the ways that IE can be broken into? It doesn’t look like it!
In this latest flaw, there’s an unpatched bug in VBScript that hackers can use to drop malware on 32-bit Windows [...]
What was Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, thinking? Amazon just signed a patent cross-licensing deal that pays Microsoft intellectual property fees for, among other things, patents that cover Amazon’s Linux-based Kindle e-reader and its Linux servers. Too bad Microsoft has never, ever been able to show that its patents cover anything to do with Linux.
Mind you, [...]
