No thanks, Microsoft, I'll keep reading blogs and thinking for myself. MSNBC never showed me where the good ones were and I doubt they will in the future. You can't run an honest search engine, so there's no way in hell I'll trust your company to tell me how to vote.
Funny how you link to an article from 2003. The same MSN search mentioned in that article now yields the following results for me: linux.org, linux.com, Wikipedia article on Linux, linux.org.au, linuxaa.com, and distrowatch.com. Sometimes things change, you know?
A more correct solution (and better IMO) would be to implement a user option in IE itself e.g. "IE6/7 compatibility for older pages", or something like that. Make the default standards-based, but for older pages users could just select that option. I suppose that'll be too complex for many 'less technically literate' users.
That is more correct, but is it more practical? Do a Google search for "computer" and it'll say Results 1 - 10 of about 2,280,000,000 for computer. The set of pages broken by a standards-compliant browser is certainly smaller than 2.28 billion pages, but I bet it's still a pretty large number. Major, popular sites like Slashdot and MSNBC may be fixed to be standards-compliant, but what about my high school's web page? Local fire department? My geology professor's page on next week's homework? And remember, people like my mom surf the Internet. She gets confused when multiple applications are open.
But still, MS made this mess, they shouldn't expect others to have to deal with the fallout of fixing it, nor create still new MS-specific tags that the entire world has to use forever just because of their broken client; that reeks of arrogance to me.
MS actually reached out to organizations for help on coming up with a reasonable tag. Aaron Gustafson, not a Microsoft employee, wrote:
Chris Wilson, Platform Architect for Internet Explorer, has often said that one of the core tenets of development on IE is that any choices the IE team makes must not "break the web". Sadly, IE7 did just that for quite a number of people. Unwilling to make the same mistake twice, Microsoft reached out to The Web Standards Project (of which I am a member) and to several other standards-aware developers, and asked for our help in coming up with a better method of allowing developers to "opt in" to proper standards support. The goal was to find a method that was more explicit than the DOCTYPE switch, and could be implemented in any browser, not just IE.
I used to be an ultra idealist, but somewhere along the way I realized that there's this thing called 'reality'. It is reality that we live in.
Apples and oranges. Windows Flaws are flaws in the operating system. Linux flaws are to do with the applications and the operating system.
Hence why they have less, you get no applications with their OS.
The report is here. Page 13 specifically describes how in the comparison he excluded applications from Red Hat such as gimp, OpenOffice, gcc that have no Windows counterpart.
Most Linux distros have a lot more software and contain more lines of code than Windows. Therefore, you'd expect more flaws in something like Ubuntu or RHEL.
The report is available here, and states that the comparison specifically excludes components from Red Hat such as server components, gimp, OpenOffice, etc:
Red Hat and other Linux distribution vendors add value to their workstation distributions by
including and supporting many applications that don't have a comparable component on a
Microsoft Windows operating system. It is a common objection to any Windows and Linux
comparison that counting the "optional" applications against the Linux distribution is unfair, so I've
completed an extra level of analysis to exclude component vulnerabilities that do not have
comparable functionality shipping with a Windows OS. In short, I install a rhel4ws computer and:
I excluded any component that is not installed by default, which includes all optional
"server" components that ship with rhel4ws.
I additionally excluded text-internet, graphics (the gimp stuff) and office (OpenOffice) and
Development Tools (gcc, etc) installation groups.
I used the rpm command to list out all packages that get installed and used that package
list to filter vulnerabilities for inclusion.
This process results in a Gnome-windows workstation that includes standard system management
tools, Firefox for browsing, sound and video support, but excludes all server packages, as well as
OpenOffice and other optional stuff that a Windows system wouldn't have by default.
It'd be nice if it listed the exact components installed on Red Hat, but at least it attempts to cull the component set to something more reasonable for comparison.
99% percent of the users of hotmail.com will use hotmail.
Hotmail has 380 million users. 1% of that is still 3.8 million people. Also remember that in addition to hotmail.com, Hotmail supports 28 other domains such as live.dk and live.jp. And users can use Live Admin Center (can the name get any more generic?) to use their own domains with Hotmail, which effectively gives Hotmail an infinite number of domains to support. I actually use this. Given all that, I think it's easier to require that users type in the domain to avoid problems where the non-hotmail.com people forget and try to login to someone else's account.
With the 30GB Version on sale for $99, I picked it up.
I picked up a Zune 30 for cheap too. Despite all the flak it has received I really like the device, although the Zune 30 is certainly lacking in the "cool" factor. At a recent Thanksgiving party I was too embarassed to take it out when people around me had iPhones.
I wasn't really shopping for something of the sort, but $99 bucks is just to good of deal, also I saw the 80GB version @ $250 which I believe is a lot cheaper then then Ipod.
You can't really compare prices like that. The Zune 80 competes with the iPod Classic 80 GB; both are $250. The iPod Touch and iPhones cost more, but they're different classes of devices from the Zune 80.
My biggest annoyance is the inability to just plug the god damn thing in and copy files, but once again at 99 bucks I'll overlook a lot of shortcomings.. and I read a review that said you can't use the zune as a portable hard drive. If anyone has a workaround for this lemme know!
If you're still using the old firmware there's a hack to make it work like a hard drive, but I don't know of a workaround for the new firmware.
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That is more correct, but is it more practical? Do a Google search for "computer" and it'll say Results 1 - 10 of about 2,280,000,000 for computer. The set of pages broken by a standards-compliant browser is certainly smaller than 2.28 billion pages, but I bet it's still a pretty large number. Major, popular sites like Slashdot and MSNBC may be fixed to be standards-compliant, but what about my high school's web page? Local fire department? My geology professor's page on next week's homework? And remember, people like my mom surf the Internet. She gets confused when multiple applications are open.
MS actually reached out to organizations for help on coming up with a reasonable tag. Aaron Gustafson, not a Microsoft employee, wrote:
I used to be an ultra idealist, but somewhere along the way I realized that there's this thing called 'reality'. It is reality that we live in.
The report is here. Page 13 specifically describes how in the comparison he excluded applications from Red Hat such as gimp, OpenOffice, gcc that have no Windows counterpart.
The report is available here, and states that the comparison specifically excludes components from Red Hat such as server components, gimp, OpenOffice, etc:
It'd be nice if it listed the exact components installed on Red Hat, but at least it attempts to cull the component set to something more reasonable for comparison.
Hotmail has 380 million users. 1% of that is still 3.8 million people. Also remember that in addition to hotmail.com, Hotmail supports 28 other domains such as live.dk and live.jp. And users can use Live Admin Center (can the name get any more generic?) to use their own domains with Hotmail, which effectively gives Hotmail an infinite number of domains to support. I actually use this. Given all that, I think it's easier to require that users type in the domain to avoid problems where the non-hotmail.com people forget and try to login to someone else's account.
I picked up a Zune 30 for cheap too. Despite all the flak it has received I really like the device, although the Zune 30 is certainly lacking in the "cool" factor. At a recent Thanksgiving party I was too embarassed to take it out when people around me had iPhones.
You can't really compare prices like that. The Zune 80 competes with the iPod Classic 80 GB; both are $250. The iPod Touch and iPhones cost more, but they're different classes of devices from the Zune 80.
If you're still using the old firmware there's a hack to make it work like a hard drive, but I don't know of a workaround for the new firmware.