Andre Venter: Windows

Paolo

Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:33:25 GMT

"I have tried importing quite a few PowerPoint presentations to Keynote, it doesn't only work, they usually improve." [Scripting News]

Fast Spreading Worm Attacks Microsoft Windows

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:14:08 GMT

An Internet worm targeting Microsoft Windows users was spreading rapidly around the world today, triggering computer crashes and slowing Web connections. By Reuters. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Microsoft & weblogs

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:24:41 GMT

Dan Gillmor asked Microsoft about what weblogging tools and services it has, and this is the answer he got.

What should Microsoft do in this space? [The Scobleizer Weblog] I think I'll refrain from answering that one...

Blogs: Another Tool in the Security Pro's Toolkit (Part Two)

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:32:55 GMT

In my last column, I introduced you to blogging and blogs, and some of the issues that security professionals should consider before starting their own blogs. In this column we continue the discussion, and focus on blogs that specialize in security. [Scott Granneman: SecurityFocus]

ZIP developers fork up

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:16:14 GMT

WinZIP and PKWare, two leading developers of ZIP archival software, are forking the format with non-standard security features. This seems like a great way to ruin the best thing about the format: the assurance that a file with the .zip extension could be opened easily by anyone with ZIP software. [Workbench]

Matt Williams talks about FrontPage and Sharepoint

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 19:24:02 GMT

and how suprised he was at the feature set. Me too. Microsoft, in 1996, named me one of the top five FrontPage users in the world, but recently I've been building an intranet site in Frontpage and wow, has it come a long way. I'll write more after I get done.

One big hole, though: I wish it did RSS. (Although Harry Pierson is working on a Sharepoint RSS generator).

[The Scobleizer Weblog]

.NET Weblogs

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 19:23:20 GMT

Cool! [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Mark Pilgrim shows how he reinstalled Windows XP

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 19:22:16 GMT

Yeah, I know what you mean Mark. I need to reinstall this machine too. Not looking forward to it.

[The Scobleizer Weblog]

Study says Linux approaches Windows XP usability:

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:35:04 GMT

[InfoWorld] "The researchers studied how easily two groups of users could perform tasks using the different operating systems... Linux users, for example, needed 44.5 minutes to perform a set of tasks, compared to 41.2 minutes required by the XP users..." Interesting... I wondered if they tried installing software or changing configuration files... the study appears to be available in German only... [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley]

Man shrinks Windows 95 to under 10MB!

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:30:01 GMT

"The man who performed a shrinking trick on previous versions of Windows claims today that he's reduced Win95 to under 10MB.

Windows 95, he says, works in real (safe) mode and doesn't require the registry but simply SYSTEM.INI. Nor, he says, does it need a swap file to run and it can be run from a RAMdisk using a free utility.

He claims that the 10MB version of Windows 9X will support multiple MS DOS Windows, and he claims that it can be shrunk even further." The Inquirer [Follow Me Here...]

Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:10:33 GMT

Safari global usage share more than doubles since Feb.. Web analytics research firm OneStat.com revealed on Monday global usage statistics for leading Web browsers. Apple saw the global usage share of its Safari browser more than double since February, according to the report. OneStat.com indicated that Safari increased its global usage share from 0.11 percent to 0.25 percent since February 2003. Based on KHTML from KDE's Konqueror open source project, Apple's Safari browser was released in January as a public beta test version. The software was downloaded more than five million times during its beta test, according to Apple. Apple released Safari 1.0 in June, along with a software development kit (SDK) that enables Mac OS X developers to embed the Safari HTML rendering engine in their own software. [MacCentral]

San Mehat On Web Services & .Net

Fri, 30 May 2003 13:24:56 GMT

[Slashdot]

Munich Spurns Steve Ballmer's Software Rebates

Wed, 28 May 2003 18:14:23 GMT

[Slashdot]

Fri, 23 May 2003 15:32:36 GMT

Operating Systems. As I was browsing websites, I (once again) came across the great debate: X vs. XP. So I'd like to know: which one is your favorite OS? Mac OS X? Windows XP? Linux? Please go into detail if possible and explain your reasoning. Hopefully, it will be fun! (Aaron) [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]

Fri, 16 May 2003 16:17:53 GMT

Rendevouz for Windows. There is someone called Bob Bradley working on a implementation Rendezvous for Windows. It is a technology that allows self-configurating TCP/IP-networks and -services. It was outlined by many people under the codename ZeroConf and Apple is the first major OS vendor to include it in MacOS X. [owrede_log]

Thu, 15 May 2003 19:20:15 GMT

The Register. Last Friday Bill Gates of Microsoft plus entourage and NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw plus entourage breezed into the little prairie town of Watertown, South Dakota for coffee with the locals. The Gates Foundation has sprung for some computers for the local library, and NBC "calming force" Brokaw was doing the promo. [Daypop Top News Stories]

Thu, 15 May 2003 19:06:37 GMT

MSN for Mac OS X [All OS X]

Thu, 15 May 2003 17:29:06 GMT

Wired News: Is Palladium Getting a Bad Rap? [Hack the Planet]

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 16:39:31 GMT

The Register. Opera Software has accused Microsoft of deliberately engineering the MSN home page in order to make it look as if the Opera browser has a serious flaw in it. And the Norwegian company has published the results of an investigation which it says proves this. [Daypop Top News Stories]

Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:12:30 GMT

BW Online | February 5, 2003 | A Rendezvous with Redmond?. Apple is delivering on the immense potential of its no-fuss networking system. With luck, it could be a direct challenge to Microsoft [Daypop Top News Stories]