As far as I understand it, it's all about the domain of the product. You can make a product and call it windows or windows 'something' as long as it's not a computer based product. Similarly to how there's Apple Computers and Apple Records, the Beatles-founded record company. As soon as Apple Computers started getting into the music biz, they had to field suits from Apple Records.
Anyway, it's a dick move from MS. Even though the programmers Windows Defender software had been defunct for a few years, they should have paid him for the name.
Nothing is wrong with their developers. You just seem to be having some difficulty understanding TSQL's SELECT statment definition. TOP is what you are looking for, champ.
At the same time, Microsoft is lining up to have the largest release schedule in their history. In the 2006 fiscal year we'll see -- Xbox 360, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Servier 2005, Office 12, Vista, and new versions of quite a few other smaller properties. They are forecasting double digit growth in revenue.
Whatever is going on in the market, it's going to be a really interesting 2006.
...protection is needed. Lets take unix and assume that there are no elevation of priv attacks or any other vulnerability. We can aggree that the user at some point has to be able to (a)run an application, and (b)modify their personal information (read, not system config info, just theirs). So, the issue still exist of a dumb user running a bad executable, unless you limit a user to only installed executabled which IMHO would limit the appeal of the OS to the general user market. This is where anti-spyware/anti-virus software is still needed, and will always be needed.
I agree that Windows has a long way to go from being this perfect OS, and this is why they offer anti-spyware for free.
Sony hasn't announced a release date for the PS3. And with all the concerns about whether Blu-Ray will be ready for manufacturing any time soon, it's seeming pretty unlikely that their 'spring 2006' timeline is realistic.
You should take care about your problem pulling dates out of your ass.
Xbox 360 will launch with only a DVD drive so it's not as attractive as the PS3
The Xbox 360 is going to be released at least 6 months, maybe even closer to a year, before the PS3 is released. So until the PS3 is out, it can't really be a more attractive alternative to the Xbox. I have a feeling that by the time the PS3 hits the streets, the Xbox 360 will have a shiny HD-DVD drive in it.
Those are interesting examples, but how succesful are they? It doesn't seem like SalesForce.com has particularly impacted the desktop CRM area, the same for NetLedger.
Years ago I was an intern at Lotus working on eSuite, a Java based online office suite. It was a farily functional suite, but boy did that crash and burn spectacularly. But the landscape has changed a lot since then, and Google is a different beast so this should be interesting.
Well... whatever they are thinking is gaining them 10+ billion dollars every quarter, and double digit growth. As much as tons of people hate Microsoft, they still haven't slowed down, even though they've only had a handful of new key software offerings (Office 2k3, win2k3).
If they have this kind of growth with their aging software, then I'd keep an eye out for 2006, as they are releasing new versions of most of their biggest products (Xbox, Vista, Office, Visual Studio, SQL, Exchange, etc...).
The problem with Microsoft is that all these services that are the center of value can be offered over free software platforms.
How is this a new problem? Can't we just as easily say "The problem with Microsoft is that all their software has free alternatives on free software platforms."?
This article's arguments are no different than the same arguments we see over an over again about how "Microsoft is on the way out because of Linux, seriously!!", or "Microsoft is on the way out because of Open/Star Office, seriously!!".
Google has yet to prove themselves anything else than a 90's Yahoo with an huge IPO. Their apps are pretty sweet, but not really innovative (they are incremental improvements over previous implementations). They have *lots* of smarts in the company, but as of yet they haven't rocked the world with anything.
And at the same time, Microsoft is pretty scared of Google, and are putting unbelievable resources and smarts behind MSN (who would have thought... smart people at MSN??:}), PLUS they've realigned the top-level company orgs so that MSN and Windows are in the same org (and hence you can probably expect lots of cross-polination of projects). Maybe it's the author that doesn't realize just how different Microsoft's offerings could be in 5-10 years.
I'm an indeed an MS guy, is it that obvious.:) I'm a developer on Windows Vista.
On.Net, I've only done a bit of it. You may find these msdn articles useful: mem optimization, auto mem manage 1 and auto mem manage 2. One thing that bit me in the ass was the use of Strings. In.Net you have to be careful how you work with them because.Net keeps strings around for re-use. So if you execute aString+="1" ten times (where aString starts as ""), it will allocate and keep around "1", "11", "111", "1111", "11111", "111111", etc... They will eventually be garbage collected, but in a high stress environment this can be real bad real quick. The trick is to use StringBuilder for string management, which will be very efficient with memory use.
As for the spyware issue, I would be legitimately interested in any spyware you find that bypasses user protection. If you are only a member of User, then the following resources will be blocked from modification: C:\windows, c:\program files, c:\documents and settings\(any user other than yourself that doesn't explicitly give you access), and registry entries in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. So in this scenario spyware can litter your user's folders, and whatever other folders are on the drive that aren't ACL'd correctly, but with the correct ACLs you should be able to reboot into any other account and not be affected by the spyware (and cleaning is easy, just nuke the user account, and re-creat it). Spyware can set itself to auto-start for that particular user (since the registry is in HKEY_CURRENT_USER), but it cannot set itself to auto-start for any other user (since that registry is in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE).
I'm very familiar with the internals of the platform, so at least in this case I can vouch for the robustness of the resource protection mechanisms in windows (ok, 2000, XP and SP2 at least). If you are seeing different behavior than what I describe, I would double check the security settings on folders. If someone came around and added 'Everyone Read/Write' to C:\windows, then yeah you could have issues.
Please provide me w/ the name of the spyware you are cleaning off of these limited user desktops. Otherwise, I can assume you don't know what you are talking about.
I wonder how much 'Blue-Ray in PS3' will really help the format, though... The PSP is selling like crazy, and sony is pushing a lot of its movies in their PSP disk format, but you don't really see that building any kind of inertia for the format to be adopted by anyone else. In fact, Sony seems to have a pretty long history of using their own standards, and not seeing a huge amount of adoption outside of their circles (i.e. MiniDisk, Memory Stick, etc...).
All my users that use XP are non-administrators (and they don't know administrator password either). My only job is constant cleanup of spyware and viruses (if you support advertising agency it can't be avoided, there's just too much mail usage), funny thing, some spyware installs it self even under Administrator (which is never logged, but registry result shows so).
If you are a limited user, spyware *cannot* install itself under other user accounts or affect any system files (i.e. - c:\windows, c:\program files, registry hkey_local_machine). It can muck up your user settings, since the user has access to it, but that's about it. Unless you want to point me to this spyware you came across, which would have to be using a previously unknown elevation of priviledge vulnerability.
real problem is that IE was too trigger happy at installing active-x and other ridiculous security flaws.
Here is a proof that your comment is flawed. If IE would really work as you say, it wouldn't have the privilege to do so.
Log in as non-administrator, IE will not be able to install active-x, or otherwise affect system files. IE does not automatically have the priviledges to modify the system. The problem is that everyone runs as root, so even when you run notepad you have access to the whole system. This is a different issue altogether.
Go to safe mode as Administrator. Try to get in any other users home directory, clearly security prevents you doing that. That's what I call a good security:) Well, NOT!!! Now put Knoppix...
I'm not sure what your point is here... I can do the same in reverse. Boot into linux and setup all the directory protections I want for my user directories. Then, boot into windows, mount the drive w/ apps that recognize ext2/ext3/reiser/etc... and bingo, I can read all the files!
IE6 already has tabbed browsing, just install the msn search toolbar. Even so, tabbed browsing won't make firefox users switch back. It should be interesting to see what exactly is compelling about IE7.
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Sigh... IE isn't integrated into the OS.
It runs just like any other user level process and is restricted as such. You have the same rights to the system running Firefox as you do IE. The real problem is that IE was too trigger happy at installing active-x and other ridiculous security flaws. The same effect as if Open Office suddenly decided to install random extensions from the web. With SP2 things are significantly better. It remains to be seen what we get w/ IE7.
Confusion might lie in the fact that IE is also available as a library so that you can have web browsing through in your own application. But it is still subject to the same security restrictions of the parent process.
This is indeed what happened. We are building Vista on top of the Win2k3 code, so from now on we won't have two code bases -- the less stable/secure client platform vs. the rock-solid server platform -- instead now both are one and the same... seems smart to me. Although a side effect was the 'reset' which caused the long delays.
Partly because they've been going in odd directions recently for the sake of 'innovation'. The DS may be selling, but really did it bring any real innovation? No, just a handful of niche games. This is pretty bad for nintendo... they are currently last in the console wars, and while Sony and MS have released tons of info on their new systems, Revolution is mostly vaporware at this point.
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As far as I understand it, it's all about the domain of the product. You can make a product and call it windows or windows 'something' as long as it's not a computer based product. Similarly to how there's Apple Computers and Apple Records, the Beatles-founded record company. As soon as Apple Computers started getting into the music biz, they had to field suits from Apple Records.
Anyway, it's a dick move from MS. Even though the programmers Windows Defender software had been defunct for a few years, they should have paid him for the name.
Nothing is wrong with their developers. You just seem to be having some difficulty understanding TSQL's SELECT statment definition. TOP is what you are looking for, champ.
At the same time, Microsoft is lining up to have the largest release schedule in their history. In the 2006 fiscal year we'll see -- Xbox 360, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Servier 2005, Office 12, Vista, and new versions of quite a few other smaller properties. They are forecasting double digit growth in revenue.
Whatever is going on in the market, it's going to be a really interesting 2006.
Web 2.0? It's just firefox with a few extensions and a different skin...
...protection is needed. Lets take unix and assume that there are no elevation of priv attacks or any other vulnerability. We can aggree that the user at some point has to be able to (a)run an application, and (b)modify their personal information (read, not system config info, just theirs). So, the issue still exist of a dumb user running a bad executable, unless you limit a user to only installed executabled which IMHO would limit the appeal of the OS to the general user market. This is where anti-spyware/anti-virus software is still needed, and will always be needed.
I agree that Windows has a long way to go from being this perfect OS, and this is why they offer anti-spyware for free.
Sony hasn't announced a release date for the PS3. And with all the concerns about whether Blu-Ray will be ready for manufacturing any time soon, it's seeming pretty unlikely that their 'spring 2006' timeline is realistic.
You should take care about your problem pulling dates out of your ass.
Xbox 360 will launch with only a DVD drive so it's not as attractive as the PS3
The Xbox 360 is going to be released at least 6 months, maybe even closer to a year, before the PS3 is released. So until the PS3 is out, it can't really be a more attractive alternative to the Xbox. I have a feeling that by the time the PS3 hits the streets, the Xbox 360 will have a shiny HD-DVD drive in it.
Those are interesting examples, but how succesful are they? It doesn't seem like SalesForce.com has particularly impacted the desktop CRM area, the same for NetLedger.
I'm wondering whether the writer actually saw Flock in action, or just got really excited about all their market speak.
Years ago I was an intern at Lotus working on eSuite, a Java based online office suite. It was a farily functional suite, but boy did that crash and burn spectacularly. But the landscape has changed a lot since then, and Google is a different beast so this should be interesting.
Well... whatever they are thinking is gaining them 10+ billion dollars every quarter, and double digit growth. As much as tons of people hate Microsoft, they still haven't slowed down, even though they've only had a handful of new key software offerings (Office 2k3, win2k3).
If they have this kind of growth with their aging software, then I'd keep an eye out for 2006, as they are releasing new versions of most of their biggest products (Xbox, Vista, Office, Visual Studio, SQL, Exchange, etc...).
The problem with Microsoft is that all these services that are the center of value can be offered over free software platforms.
:}), PLUS they've realigned the top-level company orgs so that MSN and Windows are in the same org (and hence you can probably expect lots of cross-polination of projects). Maybe it's the author that doesn't realize just how different Microsoft's offerings could be in 5-10 years.
How is this a new problem? Can't we just as easily say "The problem with Microsoft is that all their software has free alternatives on free software platforms."?
This article's arguments are no different than the same arguments we see over an over again about how "Microsoft is on the way out because of Linux, seriously!!", or "Microsoft is on the way out because of Open/Star Office, seriously!!".
Google has yet to prove themselves anything else than a 90's Yahoo with an huge IPO. Their apps are pretty sweet, but not really innovative (they are incremental improvements over previous implementations). They have *lots* of smarts in the company, but as of yet they haven't rocked the world with anything.
And at the same time, Microsoft is pretty scared of Google, and are putting unbelievable resources and smarts behind MSN (who would have thought... smart people at MSN??
I'm an indeed an MS guy, is it that obvious. :) I'm a developer on Windows Vista.
.Net, I've only done a bit of it. You may find these msdn articles useful: mem optimization, auto mem manage 1 and auto mem manage 2. One thing that bit me in the ass was the use of Strings. In .Net you have to be careful how you work with them because .Net keeps strings around for re-use. So if you execute aString+="1" ten times (where aString starts as ""), it will allocate and keep around "1", "11", "111", "1111", "11111", "111111", etc... They will eventually be garbage collected, but in a high stress environment this can be real bad real quick. The trick is to use StringBuilder for string management, which will be very efficient with memory use.
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As for the spyware issue, I would be legitimately interested in any spyware you find that bypasses user protection. If you are only a member of User, then the following resources will be blocked from modification: C:\windows, c:\program files, c:\documents and settings\(any user other than yourself that doesn't explicitly give you access), and registry entries in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. So in this scenario spyware can litter your user's folders, and whatever other folders are on the drive that aren't ACL'd correctly, but with the correct ACLs you should be able to reboot into any other account and not be affected by the spyware (and cleaning is easy, just nuke the user account, and re-creat it). Spyware can set itself to auto-start for that particular user (since the registry is in HKEY_CURRENT_USER), but it cannot set itself to auto-start for any other user (since that registry is in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE).
I'm very familiar with the internals of the platform, so at least in this case I can vouch for the robustness of the resource protection mechanisms in windows (ok, 2000, XP and SP2 at least). If you are seeing different behavior than what I describe, I would double check the security settings on folders. If someone came around and added 'Everyone Read/Write' to C:\windows, then yeah you could have issues.
Please provide me w/ the name of the spyware you are cleaning off of these limited user desktops. Otherwise, I can assume you don't know what you are talking about.
P.S. - Power User != Limited User
I wonder how much 'Blue-Ray in PS3' will really help the format, though... The PSP is selling like crazy, and sony is pushing a lot of its movies in their PSP disk format, but you don't really see that building any kind of inertia for the format to be adopted by anyone else. In fact, Sony seems to have a pretty long history of using their own standards, and not seeing a huge amount of adoption outside of their circles (i.e. MiniDisk, Memory Stick, etc...).
All my users that use XP are non-administrators (and they don't know administrator password either). My only job is constant cleanup of spyware and viruses (if you support advertising agency it can't be avoided, there's just too much mail usage), funny thing, some spyware installs it self even under Administrator (which is never logged, but registry result shows so).
If you are a limited user, spyware *cannot* install itself under other user accounts or affect any system files (i.e. - c:\windows, c:\program files, registry hkey_local_machine). It can muck up your user settings, since the user has access to it, but that's about it. Unless you want to point me to this spyware you came across, which would have to be using a previously unknown elevation of priviledge vulnerability.
real problem is that IE was too trigger happy at installing active-x and other ridiculous security flaws.
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Here is a proof that your comment is flawed. If IE would really work as you say, it wouldn't have the privilege to do so.
Log in as non-administrator, IE will not be able to install active-x, or otherwise affect system files. IE does not automatically have the priviledges to modify the system. The problem is that everyone runs as root, so even when you run notepad you have access to the whole system. This is a different issue altogether.
Go to safe mode as Administrator. Try to get in any other users home directory, clearly security prevents you doing that. That's what I call a good security:) Well, NOT!!! Now put Knoppix
I'm not sure what your point is here... I can do the same in reverse. Boot into linux and setup all the directory protections I want for my user directories. Then, boot into windows, mount the drive w/ apps that recognize ext2/ext3/reiser/etc... and bingo, I can read all the files!
IE6 already has tabbed browsing, just install the msn search toolbar. Even so, tabbed browsing won't make firefox users switch back. It should be interesting to see what exactly is compelling about IE7.
Sigh... IE isn't integrated into the OS.
It runs just like any other user level process and is restricted as such. You have the same rights to the system running Firefox as you do IE. The real problem is that IE was too trigger happy at installing active-x and other ridiculous security flaws. The same effect as if Open Office suddenly decided to install random extensions from the web. With SP2 things are significantly better. It remains to be seen what we get w/ IE7.
Confusion might lie in the fact that IE is also available as a library so that you can have web browsing through in your own application. But it is still subject to the same security restrictions of the parent process.
And yet they have double digit growth every quarter... Maybe what you feel is different from what is actually happening.
This is indeed what happened. We are building Vista on top of the Win2k3 code, so from now on we won't have two code bases -- the less stable/secure client platform vs. the rock-solid server platform -- instead now both are one and the same... seems smart to me. Although a side effect was the 'reset' which caused the long delays.
For the record, even though I only develop in a particular branch of Longhorn, I do have access to the whole source tree.
It's still better than Outlook Express, that's for sure. :-)
i dunno... looking at the screenshots, it looks like a carbon copy of outlook express / thunderbird.
Partly because they've been going in odd directions recently for the sake of 'innovation'. The DS may be selling, but really did it bring any real innovation? No, just a handful of niche games. This is pretty bad for nintendo... they are currently last in the console wars, and while Sony and MS have released tons of info on their new systems, Revolution is mostly vaporware at this point.
asp.net w/ c# would be one reason. it's a fantastic dev platform, hatred for MS aside.