Once again Microsoft shows that it can’t keep it’s fat grubby fingers off something good and pure: Microsoft researchers in Cambridge, UK, are developing their own peer-to-peer file-sharing software. Codenamed Avalanche, the program makes it easy to share content by dividing files such as software, audio or video, into chunks, much like BitTorrent. Using “network [...]
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Microsoft Developing Alternative To Bittorrent
June 21st, 2005 · 1 Comment · Bittorrent, Microsoft
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Windows Server To Get New Shell
June 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Microsoft
Tomshardware reports that Microsoft is going to change the standard Windows Command Line to a new shell, called Monad Shell, over the next 5 years: Orlando (FL) – The command line interface to the Windows Server OS will be changed to the new Monad Shell (MSH), in a phased implementation to take place over the [...]
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A Brief History Of The GUI
May 5th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Computers In General, Cool Geeky Stuff, Linux, Microsoft
Ars Technica has written a fascinating brief history of the GUI. Excerpt: The history of the development of the graphical user interface is a long and complicated tale. While it is easy to find individuals like Douglas Engelbart and Alan Kay who made great contributions to advancing the state of the art, the truth of [...]
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Criticism on Microsoft’s Anti Openness Policy
February 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Microsoft
Just came across an opionion piece on The Register that debunks Bill Gates comments last week that Microsoft ranks interoperability as very important. Exerpt: So, Mr. Gates, writes Hakon Lie, you say you believe in interoperability. Then why, pray tell, doesn’t the web page of your interoperability communiqué conform to the HTML4 standard as it [...]
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Windows XP SP2 Heap Protection Broken
January 30th, 2005 · No Comments · Microsoft, Security
Looks like the guys at Positive Technology has broken the new XP SP2 Heap protection. Here’s a brief reminder of what the protection entails from the paper: Memory protection Buffer overrun attacks are among the most common mechanisms, or vectors, for intrusion into computers. In this type of exploit, the attacker sends a long string [...]
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Bandwidth to kill Microsoft
January 3rd, 2005 · No Comments · Microsoft
The EveryBody Is Crazy blog writes that bandwidth is what’s going to kill Microsoft in the end, as it is still making client centric software. While I don’t agree with all that he says, he makes some good points. An excerpt: At present, we find ourselves in a situation unprecedented in all history – the [...]
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Microsoft to charge for security tools
December 18th, 2004 · No Comments · Microsoft, Security
CNN reports the following: Microsoft Corp. disclosed plans Thursday to offer frustrated users of its Windows software new tools within 30 days to remove spyware programs secretly running on computers. But it might cost extra in coming months. In a shift from past practice, the world’s largest software manufacturer said it may charge consumers for [...]
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