Rants Tagged with “Microsoft”
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Rumor has it that MS is going to ditch Media Center Edition. This comes on the heels of giving up on Smart Displays. Wonder if MS is cleaning house to allow it to focus on Longhorn/Yukon/Whidbey/Orcas.
I just found out a really cool feature in Outlook 2003. In the rules, you can set it up to show you a notification based on a rule. This way I turn off the little notifications on all e-mails and only show them for the people in my address book (and therefore may be urgent). Check it out!
After attending most of the Keynote this morning at the PDC I am convinced that Microsoft is headed in the right direction, but it is still a long way off. 2005 or 2006 is too long to plan towards. On other note, Yukon and Whidbey will be here soon. Its about time to start planning for these technologies now.
I'll blog in more detail later tonight about what these technologies mean to you.
Other than LAX being 'smoked' in, there is not much to report today. A number of MS employees seem to be stuck at SeaTac waiting for the smoke from the bush fires to clear out. On my way in last night, we flew over the fires. It was pretty impressive. We were in a holding pattern over the fires and could smell the wood smoke in the plane. After a few nervous passengers asked the staff, we were reassured that it was only from the fires below
Since I am not registered for the pre-Conference sessions, there isn't much to do today. After walking around the conference hall, it is clear that this conference is all about Yukon, Whidbey and Longhorn. No doubt about it.
Until tomorrow...
Well, I am off to LA Saturday morning. In all the years I've been doing this stuff, I've *never* been to a PDC. Now I am feeling overwhelmed with what to dig into while I am there. I am lucky that I've had the opportunity to see Longhorn, Whidbey and Yukon before the PDC, but just haven't had the time to dig into Indigo and Avalon.
I'll be blogging intensely throughout the PDC. I will be scouting out SQL Server for O'Reilly as well as trying to find more authors for ONDotnet.com. If you're there and want to share what you know with the managed software world.
Looks like
Microsoft has given up the ghost on expecting users to patch their systems. Wonder whether that means automatic patching or something more interesting. The article mentions working with Firewall vendors more closely, but not sure how that will help.
Last February Bill Gates announced that he was halting development until
every project could be reviewed for security and make sure every developer knew
how to write secure code. In fact, a pretty great book
came out of the process. So did it work?
Announced in a new Aberdeen Group report, it seems as Windows has lost its
crown as the most insecure operating system. Can you guess who took their place?
Linux. Does this mean that Linux is an insecure mess? Does it mean that Windows
is hack-proof? No to both questions.
What I do think it means is that Microsoft has done an admirable job at
securing their software. I recently installed .NET Server and I was amazed at
the amount of surface area. Nothing (and I really mean nothing) was installed by
default. Gone are the days of IIS, SMTP and file sharing being on by default. I
think Bill's gambled worked. Do you?
