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This is a little bit old, but I am very glad that Mozilla has been recognized by eWeek. They had a nice review (see the link above) and I do agree with the author: there is nothing that Mozilla lacks (compared to the existing browsers). The only thing that I'd like to see in the future is anti-aliased fonts!

It also plainly states, and you f'ing know it, that SQL Server was blown away by every other database tested. And not by a little, either:

[eweek]

Because according to this ZDNEt/EWeeks review, .NET scales A LOT better then Java on [DB2, MSSql, MySQL & Oracle].

Because according to this ZDNEt/EWeeks review, .NET scales A LOT better then Java on [DB2, MSSql, MySQL & Oracle].

Because according to this ZDNEt/EWeeks review, .NET scales A LOT better then Java on [DB2, MSSql, MySQL & Oracle].

Link to Oracle's stats: http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,3670,p=1&s=1590&a =23120&po=1&i=1,00.asp, link to all stats: http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,3018,sid=0&s=1590 &a=23120,00.asp

Link to Oracle's stats: http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,3670,p=1&s=1590&a =23120&po=1&i=1,00.asp, link to all stats: http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,3018,sid=0&s=1590 &a=23120,00.asp

It is! But it happened 7 years ago with the release of Java.

Correct, this was done a long time ago by Java, but according to this survey, Microsoft have done it a lot better. Read past the part where they compare Microsoft's BETA JDBC drivers to the rest of them, and

Java on Oracle was the best at Jacva with a response time of 600 pages per second for 800 users, but just look at the .NET tests for the same app. 800 pages per second for 850 users!

It is! But it happened 7 years ago with the release of Java.

Correct, this was done a long time ago by Java, but according to this survey, Microsoft have done it a lot better. Read past the part where they compare Microsoft's BETA JDBC drivers to the rest of them, and

Java on Oracle was the best at Jacva with a response time of 600 pages per second for 800 users, but just look at the .NET tests for the same app. 800 pages per second for 850 users!

It is! But it happened 7 years ago with the release of Java.

Correct, this was done a long time ago by Java, but according to this survey, Microsoft have done it a lot better. Read past the part where they compare Microsoft's BETA JDBC drivers to the rest of them, and

Java on Oracle was the best at Jacva with a response time of 600 pages per second for 800 users, but just look at the .NET tests for the same app. 800 pages per second for 850 users!

Just as Mono starts making a little headway, Microsoft starts mapping out .NET V.2. I really would like to see this project accomplish what it set out to do, but you can't like it's odds.

E-week story about this is here:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,382210,00.asp

Apple is just hurting itself. Their rabid fans/sites have kept them alive through software & hardware droughts. This policy won't keep the big boys from publishing rumors and I doubt it will have any effect on the rumor sites

Here are a few

Making IM More Secure

New Tool Helps Secure IM, P2P

FaceTime Curbs IM

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Making IM More Secure

New Tool Helps Secure IM, P2P

FaceTime Curbs IM

Here are a few

Making IM More Secure

New Tool Helps Secure IM, P2P

FaceTime Curbs IM

eweek is linking to a report (PDF format) from a student at MIT detailing how Microsoft is using a hardware-based encryption key in the Xbox. The bad news? The key is identical in every unit.

And obviously you've not done a lot of research
yourself. Microsoft quietly dumped that stock a
while back. Your point's pretty much moot.

Check this out before posting more
stuff on MS owning Apple...

From Eweek:

Mozilla Impresses From All Angles

Go Mozilla go

According to an article in the Economist from August 5, 1999 entitled " Share and share unalike."

" For instance, Microsoft, the world's most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded that year, plus the change in the value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a loss of $18 billion, according to Smithers."

Also keep in mind that not only are OpenSource/Free Software breathing down their neck with increasingly viable desktop alternatives, but Oracle, Sun, IBM as well. Plus an increasing number of governments, lately Peru, China and Germany, are getting tired of their busness practices.

Now think about the software situation. Linux, QNX and others have them beat in the embedded OS market. Windows as a server OS is beat by Solaris, Linux, *BSD. Windows as middleware is becoming decreasingly competetive with Gnome and KDE. Aqua has it beat hands down, you can even run legacy apps like Ms-Word, which is about the only thing currently holding GNU/Linux back from the general desktop. However, OpenOffice and others are filling the gaps left by Lotus-123, Borland's Quattro, WordPerfect.

Then there are indications that there is no improvment on the horizon. For example the shift from software, to marketing to legislation. The way MS is working the punishment phase of the antitrust trial it looks that their products are unable to compete in a free market. Even die-hard MS fans cannot refute EWeek's report that "[Allchin] later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed." Maybe coincidentally, Bill has been shifting investment money out of Microsoft. If the rest of the top execs are offloading also, (this is speculation and it would be nice to see some real figures, but where can that type of info be looked up) then it would indicate no confidence.

So with out a cash flow or at least investor confidence, all Microsoft's troubles would bite them hard. Death by a thousand small bites, plus a few medium sized ones. Perhaps the SEC backed off to avoid popping Microsoft's baloon like just another overratted dot-com.

Or would it turn out to be a collapse more like Enron's.

http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701&a=27311, 00.asp explains that the icons are only hidden and the and the default views in the start menu are now more configurable.
You can still run IE - the executibles and dll's are all there. That is why the rest of the 9 states didn't jump for joy and say 'good microsoft... now play dead!'

I'm right...as usual......EWEEK magazine confirms my suspicions

mod Informative :-)

eWeek Article

eWeek's review of Netscape 7 preview

Okay, so there's a new MS-SQL worm going about. And it goes after default-install systems, of which there are around 1000 or so (now compromised, according to the article).

Big deal.

The problems, IMO, are not specific to Microsoft, no matter what this article may or may not imply. It's also a matter of getting trained and clueful admins in house to handle production-level servers, instead of just foisting the job off to the nearest PFY.

Granted, I'm not the most sympathetic voice in the crowd towards Microsoft. If what I've read is anywhere close to accurate, the government should immediately pull Microsoft's plug and migrate all critical systems and applications to [insert name of favorite *nix-type system here] in the shortest time possible. But clueful sysadmins and DBAs are the first, best line of defense against such attacks. Anyone care to dispute that?

End of vent. Coffee and croissants are being served in the community building next door. And be careful, the coffee's hot.

Users should decide whether or not that package of features is worth 75 bucks.

Of course, where OpenOffice is licensed under the GPL, those fonts and functions *could* be developed and distributed for free by another group. Hmm.. I smell another sourceforge project here.

• Microsoft, States Debate Remedies (eWeek, March 18)
• Microsoft Back in Court (internet.com, March 18)
• States ask for broad sanctions on Microsoft (USA Today, March 18)
• Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States (Register, March 19)
• Microsoft pressured Dell to drop Linux (The Inquirer, March 19)
• Microsoft caught in the anti-Linux act (vnunet.com, March 19)

• Case Filings
• District Court Opinions

No per-user "taxes"
Xserve lets you eliminate the most galling expense in your department's budget: the usurious per-user "tax" you've been obliged to pay for using server software. Since Xserve comes with an unlimited-client license of the UNIX-based, industrial-strength Mac OS X Server, you can serve thousands of additional users -- without spending thousands of additional dollars in licensing fees.

Kuney introduced a Microsoft memo to Ballmer, from the spring of 2000, that called into question Dell Computer Corp.'s backing of Linux. The memo said it was "untenable that a Windows Premier Partner would be promoting Linux."

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Here is a clickable Link Its an Ok read, a bit more text to avoid lameness filter

I wonder why this is listed as a leak.
When AMD announced this at a press conference a few hours ago.

AMD nails Microsoft backing for Hammer-CNET
MS to confirm Hammer support-The Register, UK
Microsoft to Support AMD's Hammer-eWeek

I wonder why this is listed as a leak.
When AMD announced this at a press conference a few hours ago.

AMD nails Microsoft backing for Hammer-CNET
MS to confirm Hammer support-The Register, UK
Microsoft to Support AMD's Hammer-eWeek

eWeek has an article about how Microsoft Windows Update has actually removed hot fixes, causing a site to be re-hit by Nimda.

Did you read the entire article? There was a link near the end that said "Click here for the test results" and it pointed directly to some nice graphs.

Today, who gives a shit what browser comes out on top??

I do.

If one company controls 99% of web browsing, they could eventually move to controlling 99% of webservers by implementing "features" that only work with their server/browser implementation. I believe that's why MS came up with IE in the first place.

Sounds conspiracy theorist, right?
Read this, then.

They're known for this sort of thing. I used to be a huge MS hater, and I've grown to tolerate them over the past 2-or-so years (since Win2000, really), but it's crap like this that puts me back on the skeptic team.

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"Microsoft's development of reliable and scalable server operating systems has enabled AMD to enter and compete more effectively in the server businesses...because most non-Microsoft server operating systems only run on specialized microprocessors," [Sanders] testified.

This is misleading at best. Granted that *maybe* (I'm not personally familiar with all of these so I'm not sure) *nices like AIX, HP-UX, Slowaris, and IRIX run on "specialized" hardware, for each one of those I can name a free or almost free server OS or platform that runs on Intel/AMD. Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake, Slackware, SuSE, Lycoris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, GNU/HURD, I could continue for a while. I mean, how many commonly used server OSes are there other than Windows and *nices?

And do I even need to comment on Microsoft's "reliable and scalable" OS and software, given the 10 new vulnerabilities found in IIS last week? Windows 2000/XP may be rather stable, but with vulnerabilities like that, what good does stability do you?

"A study of Apache security advisories dating back to Apache 1.0 shows the server's last serious problem (one where remote attackers could run arbitrary code on the server) was announced in January 1997. This problem was a buffer overflow in Apache's cookie module that was fixed in Apache 1.1.3.

A group of less serious problems (including a buffer overflow in the server's logresolve utility) was announced and fixed in January 1998 with Apache 1.2.5. In the three and a half years since then, Apache's only remote security problems have been a handful of denial-of-service and information leakage problems (where attackers can see files or directory listings they shouldn't)."

There are your numbers :)

The article url is here. If you notice, it's asp. Maybe now that they've tested apache they will see the light and switch?

For those of you keeping score at home, here's another one for the opposition of CBDTPA (or whatever they're calling it today)

This one from eWeek

enjoy

SQL Server beating MySQL on many fronts? eweek DB benchmark

Check it out: Warning: Any User Can 'Root' Win NT, 2000 ---- maybe Microsoft can mention this in their ads..

The question for you msofties is that if your boss is so happy with their position on this stuff, why are they backpeddling with regard to requiring NDAs and even releasing source code for SMB and Kerberos

I've said it once and I'll say it again. CowboyNeal should be held responsible for these vulnerabilities. *grin* Anyway, here's a very similar slashdot discussion and the related article at eWeek which I don't believe is referenced in this new incarnation.

Click here

Perhaps the reason you picked Windows 2000 is that Windows XP has serious problems with security and reliability. If the admins quoted in that EWeek article had deployed Windows XP into production instead of on their testing systems, they would have had major issues.

Conclusion: Test your shit before you deploy, if you're not doing that then you're an idiot.

In most old-style database sales, there is a negotiated contract, and one could argue that the clause in enforceable in that context. The case in question here is more of the shrink-wrap or click through EULA, which may be a harder thing to defend. Like, say, for M$ SQL Server.

transmeta is still around and doing - well ok. They switched their production facilities for costs reasons from IBM to someone else and ended up with inconsistent quality which has really kicked them in the butt.

however there are plenty of people still buying Transmeta processors and using them in highly relavant installations - an interesting article that discusses one such use is at eweek (or in the magazine) and discuss the RLX "server blade" in comparison to some other server blade products offered by Compaq and HP.

Here is that story

See for example this eweek article:

Another IT professional, based in California, who runs Windows XP systems for testing purposes, said that after installing the latest batch of XP security patches on four systems running XP Professional, all the systems became unstable.

"I'm seeing system failures requiring a reboot about once a week on each machine," said the user, who requested anonymity. "Before this latest batch of patches, I hadn't had to reboot any of these boxes. They were as stable as Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or my Linux 2.4 systems."