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Yep. PowerPoint was also first on the Mac. Word for Mac also happened in the mid-80s. Granted, calling it "Office " happened much later, but there wasn't much more to it than bundling the individual apps.

Yep, check out these 1.0 version screenshots for Mac Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Note the dates. In fact, Microsoft Word was CHARACTER-BASED for FOUR YEARS after it was a GUI app on MacOS, DESPITE having two Xerox PARC engineers as it's core.

Visual BASIC (although not an "office" app) was ALSO developed as "Microsoft BASIC for Macintosh" for THREE versions before they inexplicably did NOT port it to System 7. Here is the only screenshot I can find.

Then, the very next year, Visual BASIC for Windows (only) came out. Mac developers recognized it as their "denied" Mac BASIC.

Same thing with Access: Both MS Access AND FileMaker started from "Microsoft File", which was a Mac-Only database (unfortunately, I can't find even a single screenshot, but trust me, anyone who has developed in, or used Access or FileMaker would recognize it immediately). I still have a 3.5" floppy with the application on it. Then it simply "went away" on MacOS. Curious that MS has NEVER seen fit to release an "Access" for Macs, though.

So, you might say that Microsoft owes NEARLY EVERY SINGLE MAJOR "OFFICE" APPLICATION they sell (except the Exchange Suite) to the development work that was ORIGINALLY MAC-ONLY.

I think the classic was the Windows Add New Font dialog in Vista. That was a freaking zombie from 1991.

The add font dialog is probably the oldest piece of Windows code still running in Windows... it's from Windows 3.1, and still looks the same in Vista!

WOW

I was actually just being facetious.

HOWEVER.. with a longer time line (as you suggest) it reads as a very good idea for reasons you already stated which I won't reiterate.

however 20 years would leave us before even windows 3.1 10 years would give us 95 to play with.. but admittedly since there are still features of windows 95 AND 3.1 in vista... maybe some secrets are still too new

Yes, it may have been a while, but this is NOT the first time someone has taken a picture of 3 people and embedded it as an easter egg. Once again, MS is following the crowd.

http://www.eeggs.com/items/26468.html

For those click weary, it is about the Tandy Color Computer 2, and the famous deveoplers picture. Now this was in the computer and you had to hold down certain keys, etc... but still it look very familiure to the "security" picture.

http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/picture1 7588.aspx

BTW, that small makes it an easter egg if you ask me... As the average person would not beable to look for that "SECURITY" check when purchasing the software. Really, nice try MS.. You've been egged, just accept the joke and move on.

http://bink.nu/Article10229.bink

1) While I can't read the words, I like the pretty pictures, and usually I can pull out brand names and google them seperately http://mobbit.info/ 2) While I can read the words, I enjoy the humour http://theregister.co.uk/ 3) I use http://bink.nu/ to tell me whats new in the micro$oft world

This from an outfit that once claimed that if you renamed the "EnablePrefetcher" registry key in XP to "EnableSuperfetch" then you could get superfetch in XP.

. . .

Have you ever actually used Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, or are you just spouting your mouth off? You can run firefox locally on WinFLP. See screenshot here.

at CES.

http://bink.nu/Article9226.bink

Besides my friends who are really into new technology I haven't really heard any mention or hype from people around the Zune. I've seen 1 commercial, in a movie theater (I don't want much TV) and honestly I was kind of confused and not very impressed. It was trying to be kind of artsy and hip and in my opinion it didn't really work. At least according to http://bink.nu/Article7877.bink they plan on spending millions but I haven't seen it and the hype here, in Chicago, is still around the iPod.

Apache isn't an OS, and last I checked all servers don't run Apache in the marketplace. Not to mention Apache also runs on Win32 as well.

Are you SERIOUSLY basing your Server numbers on Apache usage?

As for your thinking that XP was a slow seller:

Here is another link: http://bink.nu/Article8359.bink

Apparently, the MS security department is just big enough for members to create headlines when they leave. Far from "not having a security department", it seems MS had several people around, but I surely can't figure out the hierarchy! What's the relationship between a Senior Security Strategist, someone doing a Security Sign-Off, Microsoft Chief Security Officer, and the Vice President in charge of the Security Business Unit?

In reverse chronological order, here we go:

We are currently discussing this one:
"Former Microsoft security strategist Window Snyder is joining Mozilla to lead the company's effort to protect its range of desktop applications from malicious hacker attacks. Snyder, who was responsible for security sign-off for Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003, will spearhead Mozilla's security strategy, eWEEK has learned."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2012804,00.as p

Then there was:
"Amid the major shake-ups in management at Microsoft, one of the company's more notable security guru's, Jesper Johansson, announced that he is leaving the company to work for the online retailer giant Amazon.com. Johansson said that as of September 5 he will become the Prinicipal Security Program Manager at Amazon. During his time at Microsoft Johansson served as a Senior Security Strategist in the company's security technology unit. Johansson also co-authored a book, "Protect Your Windows Network," with Steve Riley who also works in Microsoft's security technology unit. "
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/9303 9/93039.html

"Gordon Mangione, a 14-year Microsoft veteran who was most recently corporate vice president in the company's Security Products Group, has left the company. Reached at home, Mangione confirmed that his last day was a week ago Friday. "I'm taking some time off, looking to get into a startup. There's no rush. I'm going to parent-teacher meetings," he noted. Mangione, who had been vice president of SQL Server, moved into the high-profile security group in April 2004. There he assumed leadership of security products while Rich Kaplan led marketing. Both reported to Mike Nash, the corporate vice president in charge of the overall Security Business Unit."
http://bink.nu/Article5408.bink

At least as of 2003, this guy was also involved:
"The single largest message is: keep your system up to date with patches," Microsoft Chief Security Officer Scott Charney said.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/02/01/microso ft.security.reut/index.html

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The Preview Word for this post is "distort".

"Can't" or "shouldn't"? I bought an OEM copy of XP Pro a couple of years ago, and it installed and runs just fine after a complete upgrade to the machine - the only things that are original are the monitor and the case.

They already did this in South Korea. They were ignored; basically, S. Korea called their bluff.

http://bink.nu/Article5163.bink

http://bink.nu/Article7585.bink

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 served as the underlying operating system for a new HPC cluster that recently achieved 4.1 trillion computations per second (teraflops) on 896, 64-bit Intel Xeon processors. This result, arrived at by using Dell PowerEdge 1855 blade servers, Cisco Topspin InfiniBand switches and Force10 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) switches, was sufficient to place the system at 131st on the Top500 list. The cluster, named Lincoln, will serve strategic campus and state initiatives, with its peak performance approaching 6 teraflops.

Not bad for a first try!!!

• June 2005: Ballmer says "we'll catch up with Google in six months";
• December 2005: Ballmer says "we'll catch up with Google in six months";
• June 2006: your bet.

"In the upcoming years we'll conquer the Internet."

If MS does manage to 'conquer the internet', that would be like the Catholic church successfully conquering that irritating 'printing press' when it first showed up. After, it was being used to print unauthorized material that was distributed by a network of individuals via unauthorized channels, worst of all information critical of the holy mother church. The horror.

The more they tighten their grasp, the more of the internet will slip through their fingers....

Either way it's easily disabled. If Microsoft don't listen to your complaints then they sure will when it hits retail.

Convenient how you left Linspire out of your argument. Is a $498 Linux laptop at Walmart not low enough for you?

As far as the price of Windows dropping because Linux is on the desktop - it's possible, but don't expect it to happen immediately. Microsoft (like pretty much all companies, Red Hat and SUSE) gets the majority of the sale of their software, and sets the MSRP of their software. They probably have hundreds of people working out the best pricing plan to maximize profit (like pretty much every company). If they notice that they're selling less copies they'll adjust their offerings accordingly. Take a look at the SKUs planned for Vista. It hints that they're planning some major changes to their pricing plans. In fact, it's a sign of price discrimination, which many businesses do (like Red Hat).

These are scrum successes? I'd hate to see the failures.

Is it just me, or does something not look quite right about the "Will be saved in" and "File Type" in the following screenshot?

http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/images/1 0626/original.aspx

Office 12 screenshots

Here's another site with the images:

http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/category 1015.aspx

Use their EU bargaining tactics and release a SP for Windows 2000 that officially renames it to "Windows Antiquated Edition."

This:
http://bink.nu/Article1216.bink

Well, even Bill Gate's father disagrees with you.

Quote: "The father of Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates told Indian reporters he attributes much of his billionaire son's success to luck."

More info about Windows Eiger here.

So don't think to use this to turn old laptops into portable terminals, according to this spec:

Windows XP "Eiger":
[...]
Not supported
Windows image acquisition (WIA)
Telephony, VPN & Dial-up
Wireless networking (802.11)

The thing people are missing is that this version is based on XP Embedded with some of the features of XP Pro added in. It is not a stripped down version of XP. http://bink.nu/Article4016.bink

Yeah, at least 110 million people use it:

http://bink.nu/Article620.bink

Not so fast bucko. Did you read the specs? Obviously not. MS have a slightly different opinion of what constitutes a "thin" client. In addition to being an RDP client these beasties run IE and a few other things. It'll probably mean a whole new slew of cross-machine attacks via the desktop.

Existing Windows XP embedded based ATMs, made by Diebold, have already been effected by Windows XP-targetting worms. This should be sufficient to demonstrate that the code bases at least share whatever code caused vulnerability to the Nachi worm. The obvious question then becomes, if and when further holes in Windows XP are discovered, what happens if they too are in the code shared with Windows XP Embedded?

I mean, it's just an awfully funny coincidence that the sudden emergence of the term "cyber-crime" in connection with ATMs just happens, after all these years of computer ATMs, to coincide with the introduction of Windows based ATMs.

And I somehow suspect that in five years, when WinXPEmbedded ATMs are everywhere, if anyone observes it as odd that how ATMs suddenly have a security track record now, we'll have people saying "oh that's just part of the technology, there's nothing you can do about it, it would be the same with any other vendor"...

I thought even Microsoft (loathingly) admits that OpenOffice is at least as good as Office '97.

The odds of WU getting hacked are pretty slim as surely Microsoft concentrates all its security efforts there

Sure, I'd trust them...

No-one is beyond reach....

If you have a CD-Burner, you can install the MS patches right into the i386 directory using a technique called slipstreaming.

This will leave you with an up to date system before the network drivers are even activated. I've made several myself, and they're a godsend. :)

I'm putting XP on my laptop next to me right now actually. I think it is pretty safe because a) it is connected to the net using NAT, not directly to the modem and b) I slipstreamed SP1 into my XP CD, so that when I install it I'm already at SP1 level. See here for instructions (that's win2k, but same for winxp of course). And I dunno why you'd bother with Norton Anything quite frankly. Maybe you can just buy a cheap router doing NAT and put it between the modem and computer while you get updates.

"..make a TEXT FILE and append it into the ISO file structure..."

Or you could just edit the .ini file to not require a CD key, while you're slipstreaming in a new service pack.

Microsoft patents the "double-click".

But would it save you from Microsoft Bob?

See the following link. Cairo is listed as "Originally Windows NT 4.0, later a designation of technologies, which were planned partly for NT 4 and/or NT 5. Cancelled.

Bink.nu: Microsoft Codenames

Bink.nu has some REALLY big pictures of the new Intellimice on their site, and there are some more reasonable-sized images at warp2search.

I used to work at a rather large firm and would have to do at least 30 installations a day. I used the link below to learn how to merge the latest service packs and hotfixes into the source CDROM for installation. Saves about two hours having to do the post-install installation. I would recommend that if you are a high-volume installer or simply hate having to do that post-install patching that you do this and save some time. I have my copy on a CDRW so all i have to do is reburn the CD and i'm ready to go again..

http://www.bink.nu/Bootcd/default.htm

As others have stated, this is a non-issue.

My Compaq Presario 2715US came with Windows XP on a series of three CD's that will wipe everything before putting them back on. As far as I know, this is fairly common practice nowadays. The twist here is that all of the Microsoft applications (XP and Works) and the drivers are within the image, all of the other apps that came with it (WinDVD, Symantec Anti-Virus, etc.) are included on their own CD's.

It's easy to make a dual-boot. Resize the NTFS partition, and then install Linux into the empty space. GRUB or LILO will then install into the MBR, and presto, dual-boot!

The thing that I hate about XP versus Windows 2000 (and earlier, I believe) is that XP seems to deliberately clobber the MBR. For example, if I install Linux (and GRUB or LILO), then install XP afterwards, GRUB/LILO is gone, I have to use a boot-disk to get back into Linux. This pisses me off to no end.

Of course, not knowing fully about how Windows XP's activation works, I didn't want to just make a copy of his XP install CD, in case it was keyed for a Dell laptop. And, just in case, it somehow cut him off. :)

-- Joe

You can actually make a copy of your 2K CD-ROM and patch it with SP4 so that your fresh reinstall will be 2KSP4 right out of the gate. See here for more info. I've done this with SP2 and SP3 with great success.

Note: This only saves you the one reboot required after SP4. So you will still need to patch IE, WMP, etc... separately if you use them, and incur any reboots their installers require. However, you shoudn't need to reapply SP4 after each of those since it's your base install.

Here's a guide

2nd link in google. (searching for ie6 full download)

Uh.No. Look here. If you know how to edit an .ini file, then you to can setup Windows 2k without a registration key by change 000 to 270 at the end of a pid= line. I would say know of what you speak before you speak, but well this is /.

to go along with the screenshots, here is a list of codenames for various windows platforms, apps and technologies.

Oh...pirated? What's that?

http://www.windowsxp.nu/bootcd/
http://www.bink.nu/Bootcd/