November 30, 2009
by sjvn01
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I’ve been looking a lot lately into high-end Windows 7 networking features like URL Quality of Service (QoS)-based traffic management and Secure Remote Connect. There is a lot to like here, and yes I am a Linux guy saying that, … Continue reading
November 27, 2009
by sjvn01
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Earlier this week Microsoft announced yet another IE (Internet Explorer) bug. This one, Microsoft Security Advisory 977981, is one of the really bad ones that can allow attackers to take your Windows PC over. Yuck! Microsoft is working on a … Continue reading
November 22, 2009
by sjvn01
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Some people are already convinced that Google will fail with its Chrome operating system. Others think that Chrome can’t possibly be a threat to Windows. Both groups are so, so wrong. First, for those who think that Chrome is simply … Continue reading
November 13, 2009
by sjvn01
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I’m staggered. Microsoft has admitted that it violated the GPL2 with its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. That’s not too surprising, since the violation was about as clear-cut as you could get. What’s surprising, even shocking, is that Microsoft is … Continue reading
November 10, 2009
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Microsoft has long ripped off free software. The canonical case is that Microsoft’s first version of the fundamental TCP/IP network stack, which underlies the Internet and almost all business networking, was swiped from the BSD-licensed Unixes. Years later, it seems … Continue reading
November 6, 2009
by sjvn01
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You’d expect, as my friend Preston Gralla did, that when someone says “proprietary software is eventually going to be doomed,” and that Microsoft’s future might best be served in releasing its own version of Linux that he’s a Linux fan. … Continue reading