Archive | 2004

Internet Explorer losing market share

By Ted Roche on November 3, 2004 in Home Page

Internet Explorer loses market share. “Although Microsoft Corp. still dominates the Web browser space, its Internet Explorer continues to lose market share to open-source rival Mozilla.” From InfoWorld: Top News.

Funny thing about a monopoly – it’s likely the only change in popularity could be downward. For Microsoft and IE, the change may seem rather insignificant, tenths of percentage points. But for the FireFox promoters, this means over seven million downloads!. Wow. It’s a pretty slick browser, and I’m using it pretty much exclusively, occasionally resorting to Safari on the Mac. Check it out.

Steve Gilmor moves blog addresses

By Ted Roche on October 31, 2004 in Home Page

If you’re tracking Steve Gilmor’s postings, his address has moved: As I was saying. “The last time I posted, some four months ago, it was to my blog over on eWEEK.com. Podcasting was a gleam in Adam Curry’s eye, Scoble had read 8,248 fewer posts, and John Dvorak was just months away from being totally clueless once again.” Posted at blogs.zdnet.com | Steve Gillmor’s Inforouter. Attitude seems to have remained the same… good to see.

Microsoft EULAs and Benchmarks

By Ted Roche on October 30, 2004 in Home Page

Get the Facts on Microsoft Benchmarks. “Now that Steve Ballmer and company have given you all the facts you need to compare Windows and Linux, allow me to add just one little tidbit.” Posted at Ed Foster’s Gripelog

Apple Posts Security Update 2004-10-27

By Ted Roche on October 29, 2004 in Home Page

ComputerWorld reports “Apple Computer yesterday posted Security Update 2004-10-27, which includes an updated version of Apple Remote Desktop v1.2.4 running on Mac OS X v10.3.” Article at http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,97020,00.html?nlid=MAC

The major fix seems to be for the Apple Remote Desktop Client. There’s also an update for QuickTime on the Windows platform – Check Help | Update on the QuickTime player menu to ensure you have the latest version. More details at the Apple site, http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798

MySQL 4.1 released as production-ready

By Ted Roche on October 27, 2004 in Home Page

MySQL Version 4.1 Certified as Production-Ready. “MySQL announced the general availability of MySQL 4.1. Certified by the company as production-ready for large-scale enterprise deployment, this significant upgrade to the MySQL database server features advanced querying capabilities through subqueries, faster and more secure client-server communication, new installation and configuration tools, and support for international character sets and geographic data.”

Posted from OSNews

Windows v. Linux security: the real facts

By Ted Roche on October 24, 2004 in Home Page

Operating System Security, a Clear Winner.

Nicholas Petreley (The Register): Windows v Linux security: the real facts. “Reliance on a single metrics is a major feature of Microsoft’s Get the Facts campaign, and this is perhaps understandable if we consider what the campaign is. It is essentially a marketing-driven campaign intended to ‘get the message across’ with data used to back up the message (note that Microsoft would not necessarily disagree with us here). However, by their nature marketing campaigns push specific, favourable headline items and magnify their significance. They do not necessarily (even usually) accurately reflect the underlying data, and frequently outrun it by some distance. And this process is actually easily illustrated by the Forrester report we linked to earlier on. Get the Facts pulls out the 100 per cent fix and fewest vulnerabilities bullets, while the report itself talks of its use of three metrics and (if we’re doing headline items) also says: “ICAT classified 67% of Microsoft’s vulnerabilities as high severity, placing Microsoft dead last among the platform maintainers in this [high severity] metric.”

From Dan Gillmor’s eJournal

Joel Speaks, Microsoft Listens, Mary Jo Queries

By Ted Roche on October 23, 2004 in Home Page

Joel Speaks. Microsoft Listens.. “Joel Spolsky, as in the Joel of “Joel on Software” fame, recently chatted with Microsoft Watch about his now-infamous essay “How Microsoft Lost the API War,” as well as on lots of other items of interest to those in the Microsoft ecosystem.” Link from Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley

I’ve quoted Joel on this blog and in other forums more than a few times. It looks like an interesting interview…

Dan Bricklin, Computer History Museum Fellow

By Ted Roche on October 21, 2004 in Home Page

Congratulations to Dan Bricklin, named as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum, joining a very elite group.

Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

By Ted Roche on October 17, 2004 in Home Page

Want to bite your nails right until the last minute? This is the closest race I can recall, even more volatile than the disaster of 2000. Watch daily as the site updates with the most recent survey results, and converts them into the only units that matter: Electoral College votes. http://www.electoral-vote.com/

Microsoft details seven new patches

By Ted Roche on October 13, 2004 in Home Page

Yes, it’s that time of month again, the second Tuesday, when Microsoft releases their monthly list of patches. Quite a bunch this month, with several patches rated “Critical” with a threat of “Remote Code Execution” (“all your base belong to us.”) Get patching!. Microsoft releases fixes for seven ‘critical’ vulnerabilities. Windows users need to prepare for ‘patch Tuesday,’ analyst says. [Computerworld News]

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