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From Douglas Purdy’s blog: It is not very often that you get to be part of a team that is developing a programming language that aspires to be used by every developer on the Microsoft platform. In addition, it is not very often that you can be part of a team that aspires to …continue reading What is Microsoft’s new language? This post on the Microsoft Live Dev blog reminded me to view some of the Live Mesh videos Microsoft has put out for developers – this quick tour is a good place to start; this video with Ori Amiga has more details with examples. A few comments. First, it seems to me that Live …continue reading Microsoft Live Mesh is AIR++ Good article by Crispin Cowan, a security expert at Microsoft: Making it possible for everyone to run as Standard User is the real long term security value. It is unfortunate that Microsoft has done a poor job of articulating the purpose of UAC (User Account Control) in Vista, but good that folk like Cowan …continue reading Why UAC is (mostly) not a security boundary At least, that’s how it looks. I was intrigued when I saw reports raising the possibility of “high-end” features in MySQL being released under a closed-source license – confirmed (as a possibility) in a roundabout way here. I found it odd because Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz had told me of Sun’s intention to open …continue reading Schwartz vs Mickos on MySQL and open source I wrote a piece for IT Week about document format defaults in Office 2007. The problem is that users with Office 2007 start emailing documents to others who do not have the suite. It is not too bad for other Microsoft Office users, who can download a compatibility pack, but for users of other …continue reading Office 2007: what do you lose by setting binary formats as default? Here’s the problem. You go along to http://www.thawte.com and ask to buy a Microsoft authenticode certificate. It’s the right thing to do; signing code is increasingly important in these days of Internet delivery of applications; and unsigned code presents the user with dire warnings that may unnerve them. So you go to buy a …continue reading Buying a Microsoft code-signing certificate from Thawte? Don’t use Vista. I’ve been intrigued by reports that Server 2008, suitably configured, makes a better desktop OS than Windows Vista. In my previous post on the subject, I reported some observations by others, suggesting that Server 2008 performs better than Vista with Service Pack 1, even though it is meant to have the same core components. …continue reading Vista SP1 vs Server 2008 as a desktop OS: more comparisons I installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron, a “long term support” release which went final yesterday. It’s a tricky thing to assess. There are in general two things to say about Linux. First, you can take the line that it is a wonderful thing: free, fast, responsive and capable. You can do your work on this, …continue reading What to say about Ubuntu Hardy Heron? Chris Liddell, senior Vice President and CFO, speaking during yesterday’s earnings call: As outlined in our recent letter to the Yahoo board, unless we make progress with Yahoo towards an agreement by this weekend, we will consider our alternatives. We will provide updates as appropriate next week. These alternatives clearly include taking an offer …continue reading Microsoft: we might withdraw Yahoo offer |
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