There is a nice article on Ars discussing Microsoft’s business practices regarding windows and how they appear to be not quite working lately. It used to be that your PC came with windows whereas nowadays you have to select from a around five different versions and Microsoft is rumored to go to an even more [...]
Also tagged apple, beer, google, nokia, Software in General, ubuntu, windowsIt seems JanRain is finally readying the final version of OpenID 2.0. There’s a great overview of some concerns that I mostly share on readwriteweb.com. Together with another recent standard (OAuth), OpenID 2.0 could be a huge step forward for web security and privacy.
Lets start with what OpenID is about and why, generally, it is [...]
I just installed Flock - The Social Web Browser. Right now I’m trying out the blog editor included with it to write this little review. To cut the review short, I’m planning uninstalling it after publishing this post.
Lets just start by saying that this feels like a nice bunch of concepts and potentially useful Firefox [...]
VIDEO: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
If you are remotely interested in computers, watch this. Take the time to watch all of it.
(tags: apple microsoft billgates stevejobs)
ongoing · SOA and WCF
Very interesting blogpost on how the WS-* stack is breaking down with some nice pointers to cricism by several high level peopl
(tags: webservice web20 rest)
Eleven Emerging Ideas for SOA Architects in 2007
And another interesting article on SOA’s
(tags: webservices soa web2.0)
It’s only two days ago that I bought myself a Lacie Porsche 0.5 TB usb drive. Yesterday evening, after a reboot caused by an apple security update weird shit started to happen. Basically windows informed me that “you have 3 days to activate windows”. WTF! So I dutifully click the activate now only to watch [...]
Also tagged apple, linux, reviews
Windows Administration: Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1 — TechNet Magazine, February 2007
Interesting info on some kernel level improvements. Most of it sounds like I could use it on my XP laptop.
(tags: vista kernel sysinternals)
It’s now a few days after my previous post on the vista delay. The rumour machine on the Vista delays is now rolling. A few days ago this wild claim about 60% of vista being in need of a rewrite started circulating. Inacurate of course but it woke up some people. Now this blogpost [...]
Also tagged Software in GeneralOuch, Forbes unleashes some criticism on Microsoft. Well deserved IMHO. I don’t see the result of six years of development by thousands of software engineers reflected in the currently marketed featureset.
A few small predictions:
Vista and office 2007 (or whatever it is called) are going to go into history as the two releases that reversed the [...]
Also tagged google, Software in General
