by jcannon on June 30, 2006
Sam interviews Mike Howard, Senior Security PM at Microsoft around security in the operating system and how we think about & engineer security defenses into an operating system. What are the myths around security - do many eyes make a bug shallow?... more
- Friday, June 30, 2006
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by admin on June 30, 2006
The Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide was released this week. This guide details step-by-step instructions for providing security and directory services for mixed Windows and UNIX environments using AD. Although this release addresses AD integration only for Solaris 9 and for RedHat 9, it is pretty simple to see how it would apply to other UNIX and UNIX-like systems...... more
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by admin on June 29, 2006
Sam Interviews Sara Ford, former Computer Science and Mathematics double major and Shotokan Black Belt, to discuss Power Toys, Shared Source and CodePlex...... more
- Thursday, June 29, 2006
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by admin on June 28, 2006
Consider this scenario – the CIO’s office just called. They have decided to follow your recommendation and are going to use JBoss (substitute favorite open source software package here) as their application server (substitute database server/web server/whatever server here)...... more
- Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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by admin on June 28, 2006
Spam is a well-known problem for many on the Internet. If you have an email account anywhere, chances are you’ve gotten something you didn’t ask for; a “stock tip”, an adult entertainment solicitation, or possibly a plea from an altruistic member of the “[Random Nation] Royal Family” to assist in some friendly money-laundering...... more
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by admin on June 27, 2006
Sam interviews Korby Parnell, Program Manager for the Communities & Collab. Learn more about Codeplex, a new portal for collaborative software development & sharing source code that was launched at the OSBC in London today.
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- Tuesday, June 27, 2006
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by admin on June 26, 2006
Every now and again, you read something that sticks in your head like tree sap. Something that gets you thinking deeply about the future, your life and work… something that keeps you up at night with ‘monkey mind’, as the Zen folks like to say. 2020 Science did just that to me a couple weeks ago...
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- Monday, June 26, 2006
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by admin on June 23, 2006
Due to popular demand we are going to start posting our interview content with a transcribed text version.... more
- Friday, June 23, 2006
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by admin on June 21, 2006
Last week we announced the formation of an Interoperability Customer Executive Council. This is something many folks here at Microsoft have been working on and thanks go to a wide variety of people...... more
- Wednesday, June 21, 2006
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by admin on June 20, 2006
Not long after I blogged about “disambiguating open” as a research issue, a debate erupted on Slashdot about “How Open Does Open Source Need to Be?” Three different criteria for deciding whether something could legitimately call itself “open source” seemed to me to dominate the discussion...... more
- Tuesday, June 20, 2006
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by admin on June 19, 2006
Many would believe or would guess that Microsoft is the ‘big gorilla’ in the Brazilian market, which is why the Linux/OSS versus Microsoft debate in Brazil always seems so dramatic in the press. But, alas, we are number eight, in terms of money spent by the state...
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- Monday, June 19, 2006
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by admin on June 16, 2006
Every computing device in existence today lives and breathes on some sort of a Network. Doesn’t matter if your Home PC is connected to a Cable Modem or if you’re office laptop is part of an extended WAN, your device is persistently living and breathing on the Network...... more
- Friday, June 16, 2006
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by admin on June 14, 2006
The Windows CE team has launched a Shared Source Development Contest. See the details and meet the person responsible...... more
- Wednesday, June 14, 2006
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by admin on June 14, 2006
We have been working in the labs on doing some testing and integration of jBoss talking to a SQL server 2005 backend. We have seen some questions on how to connect a SQL Server in the Windows environment to jBoss. So I wrote a little how-to that describes just that...... more
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by admin on June 13, 2006
On Friday May 26th of April I attended the FreedomHEC Un-Conference (Yeah I am late with posting it). This was a two day conference which was held on the 26th and 27th of May...... more
- Tuesday, June 13, 2006
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