The stub installer conflates "CNET" with the name of the software package, both in its file name and in its installation wizard. For projects and products that that are registered trademarks, wouldn't that constitute some sort of violation?
Seconded. His analysis running up to 2008 was spot-on.
I'm confused. Are we supposed to go "tsk tsk" and be dismissive or be impressed that she had clear and concise specs which the vendor was able to meet?
"If you think it's nice that you can remove the DigiNotar CA, imagine a world where you couldn't, and they knew you couldn't. That's DNSSEC." -- Moxie Marlinspike
I think they have. The lesson the guys who decide which technology to use have learned is that if you invest in MS technologies and put them in your customers you'll have several good years. Then Microsoft will outdate those technologies soon and give you another round at the same consulting money.
The open source world is completely different. We stabilized on Perl^WPHP^WRuby^WNode^WEastAsia years ago and never looked back.
It hasn't stopped these guys.
How old is your data? It's about 3.2% on my servers and growing. I'm going to pop open a bottle of champagne when the percentage of IPv6 users exceeds the percentage of IE6 users.
'Verizon won't roll them out to kiosks until it performs better on the market. .
. . . and it won't perform better on the market until agents have it in their hands to offer customers. Catch-22 anyone?
...unless Microsoft is desperate enough to pay Verizon to promote WP7. For Verizon it's not a Catch-22. It's a catch-several-million-dollars-by-doing-nothing.
Wake me up when a worm has been discovered in the wild targeting OS X or Linux
Good morning! I remember cleaning a worm from a client's system in the early aughts; as I recall they were old news even then.
T-Mobile and Verizon are way ahead of you.
60% of the market is currently XP that's a lot of people to insult.
No it's not. XP's market share has been dropping steadily for a while now. I wouldn't be surprised if that trend accelerated over the next year as companies get around to infrastructure upgrades they put off during the recession.
Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user!
