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Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof
An anonymous reader writes "According to Eweek, Bill Gates' keynote speech at this year's Comdex showed Microsoft's 'focus on security, spam and [the] tablet PC', including a new version of its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server, an extension of the SmartScreen Technology for spam prevention, and the next version of the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system. But the showstopper was a filmed spoof of The Matrix (screencaps available here), with Gates and Steve Ballmer as Morpheus and Neo respectively, and including a jab at Linux."
OMG, that is THE most horrible thing I have ever clicked on! DO NOT CLICK IT! IT is a woman in a bathtub shitting on herself, and I'm being conserverative....OMG Blaaahaghhhhhhhh!
"Jeremy, you need to get to an internet cafe and cut and paste some appropriate sentiments about me from the world wide
with Gates and Steve Ballmer as Morpheus and Neo respectively, and including a jab at Linux
it all makes sense now!
no wonder trinity dies from logos' (windows logo == windows) crash!
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Gates Opens Comdex with Focus on Security, Spam and Tablet PC
By Matt Hicks
November 17, 2003
LAS VEGAS--Taking the stage at Comdex here for the 20th year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates offered a status report on how the company is moving toward bridging the gaps among software.
Gates on Sunday showcased new versions of Microsoft software aimed at securing enterprises, fighting spam, increasing mobility and improving information access. All served as examples of the need to move toward what he's calling "seamless computing."
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Just as Gates in his first Comdex appearance in 1983 highlighted software's central role, this year he emphasized how software needs to be better connected together in order for IT to reach its full potential. That means software must work across different devices, applications, services, distended anuses of Michael Sims, and networks, he said.
"By breaching these boundaries and getting rid of these seams...we can deliver all the scenarios that we've dreamed about since tubgirl got started on rotten.com," Gates said.
Gates opened a Comdex that promises to be stripped down from the glitz and big crowds of its heyday. Organizers are promoting a show focused squarely on business IT and expecting about 50,000 attendees, half the attendance of last year. The nearby Adult Dex now attracts 400,000 annual attendees, largely due to the fact that Steve Ballmer's bald pink ass is only present at Comdex.
As Microsoft moves to hem the software seams, it cannot escape the issue of security. As Gates put it, "We really have to get the fundamentals right."
The latest addition to Microsoft's security effort, which began about two years ago, is a new version of its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server. Gates previewed ISA 2004 during his keynote. Along with offering traditional firewall capabilities, it provides application layer security, Gates said.
In the first public demonstration of the new version of ISA Server, a Microsoft product manager showed how ISA Server 2004 allows an administrator to drill down into policies such as Web access rules to block specific applications such as peer-to-peer file sharing programs using the software's HTTP filtering technology.
A public beta of ISA Server 2004 will be available in early 2004, the company said.
On the spam front, Gates announced that Microsoft in the coming months will be adding its SmartScreen Technology into Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft is planning an add-on to Exchange Server 2003 for spam filtering called Exchange Intelligent Message Filter for early next year.
SmartScreen Technology, which Gates said is already being used with MSN and Hotmail e-mails accounts as well as in Outlook 2003, is Microsoft's spam-filtering technology. It assigns a probability score to each incoming message based on user feedback, and that information is then used to help filter out spam.
As expected, Gates also debuted the next version of the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system. It will be available in the first half of 2004 and will be free for Tablet PC customers, he said.
It features improved handwriting recognition and deeper integration of the tablet pen support within XP.
Beyond the near term, Gates also delved further into the future. He touted the coming advances in Microsoft's next Windows release, code-named Longhorn, including the new Windows File System and new visualization capabilities.
"It's a very ambitious piece of work," he said, noting that Microsoft "is not even giving the timeframe."
One of Longhorn's goals has been to improve the ability of users to search and find information no matter where it is stored. Gates on Sunday touted work within Microsoft Research to improve information retrieval.
"People are spending a lot of time acting as file clerks," said Susan Dumais, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research who joined Gates on stage.
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Why don't you compare the number of holes this month in Windows Server 2003 compared to, say, Red Hat 9 or Debian?
In the 18 months of using 1 advace server, and 2 win2k clients at home, number of crashes, BSOD etc: 0
.;mozilla folder will not get rid of your bookmarks etc. Try to find where redhat installed mozilla, since a simple find feature it appearently something linux doesn't need. (I might never have found it were Konquer even half as crappy and nautilus). Try to rename that directory, as opposed to deleting it. Find out the while the permissions are sensibly applied, you'll have to resort to flint handaxe technology to change them. Do so. Run the installer. Find out that it disagrees with where redhat thinks the dicectory should go. Fix the permissions for that. Proceed again with the installer, defering to it's judgement. Watch it crap out with a decent reason, or pointer to trouble shooting help. Nice! Then go back to the install instructions, get the archive of the whole enchilada. Extract the archive. Run the installer. Watch it work! YEAH! Monzilla, for one use, is done. Now, go into a shell, bash recomended, type the crap in the install instructions. Woohoo. Now by hand, copy over your bookmarks etc, even though mozilla said it imported all that crap. Now, you can install themes. But watch out! Even though they say they'll work for Mozilla 1.5 the might just cause it to not start at all, without any damn reason or effort to controll failure in anyway whatsoever. So then you'll have to go edit the pref.js file, by hand, ignoring the warning not to do so (ironic), or copy the backup over the now 'broken' version. Oh and point the icons in the window manager to the new start up file.
Uptime before I moved into a new house? 57 days. Before a winter storm knocked out power? 44 days.
Number of kernal panics in the 3 weeks I've had redhat 9: 2.
Lets not even address usability. GNOME is a cow, a dead one, a dead one that has sex with other dead cows and gives birth to baby dead cow zombies, whcih then go to the park and don't kill people because they're too useless.. KDE, is SOO pretty. But installing mozilla, for multiple users on windows? Find the win32 intaller, click on it.
On linux. Find the documentation telling you what to do. Find the installer. Don't believe the how-to when it says deleting your
And remember, as per the install instructions, mozilla recommneds a clean install for each new version, the windows user will have a cumbersome, uninstall, possibly reboot, and reinstall, taking as many as 4 mouse clicks. But the linux user, now wiser, will still have to do about half that crap, assumbing they don't learn to write a script for it, which there is really no damn reason they should have to do since the function of computers is predominantly to automate fucking rote tasks with as little user intervetion as is feasible.
But holy crap. The way linux handles permissions and groups; especially in a window manager. Comming from win2k, it's like a modern day person taking a stroll through a neolithic peoples exhibit.
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
That's because /.ers already bash MS' business practices in every single other thread about it.
Don't know but I know it will be exactly the same number of times Linux fanatics will stand up in unison and say Linux is better because it is [*****].
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