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Linux Pipeline Newsletter www.LinuxPipeline.com Monday, November 21, 2005 In This Issue: - Microsoft Makes Windows Validation Plug-In For Firefox - Sun Throws Solaris Onto Open-Source DB Bandwagon - Web Domain Accord Offers Something To Upset Everyone - More News... - Microsoft Aims To Make Life With 'Ajax' A Lot Easier - First Look: Microsoft Office 12 Beta 1 - Special Coverage: 20 Years Of Windows - More Picks... Join InformationWeek for a FREE, OnDemand TechWebCast, From Risk Mitigation to Risk Optimization. This presentation provides Gartner recommendations on best practice industry models and process improvement strategies and Borland will present a new paradigm for risk optimization that is based on these best practice industry models and leverages people, process and technology. Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 11:00-12:00 AM PT / 2:00-3:00 PM ET "http://www.techweb.com/webcasts/riskmitigation120805" ----------------------------------------- Editor's Note: Talking Turkey Surprise! Rather than our usual Wednesday delivery, we decided to drop in early this week. Unlike some of the other guests you can expect to see this week, we won't show up at the last minute to eat you out of house and home; we won't spend half a day sprawled on your sofa, rooting for the wrong team and drinking your good beer; and we definitely won't show up with a "gift" fruitcake -- although if you're a regular reader, you know that we certainly have a few of those to spare.  Speaking of fruitcakes: In the interest of holiday amity, we're laying off Windows this week at least long enough for the birthday, umm, thing to blow out the candles on its silicon cupcake. That's right, 20 years ago (roughly) last week, Windows 1.0 slithered out of its crib, got loose just long enough to scare the neighbors, and quickly vanished -- although I understand that we have screen shots of the critter, along with many of the other interim Windows releases, for those of you who enjoy gawking at scary, freakish things.
Bear in mind: This is what Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were fighting like rabid pigs to be the first to steal from Xerox Parc. Then as now, it's surprisingly hard to imagine that 20 years from now, we'll look back at this hulking, hard to use, slow as molasses desktop semi-savagery and wonder how we managed to make any productive use of it. (Or we'll be living in the wreckage of our shattered cities, fighting for our lives against an army of murderous mutant Windows cyborgs, wishing we had taken Bill Joy a little more seriously than we did. Take your pick.) If all of that Windows hoopla is putting you off your lunch, we've also got the latest on Sony's attempted suicide-by-rootkit, which unfortunately looks to be a failure after all. I am inclined to think, however, that even a corporate creature as notoriously hard to house-train as a multinational record label may have learned its lesson -- for the time being -- from such a vicious, and by no means finished, public smack-down. It also looks as if Sony's bird won't be the only one getting cooked during the weeks to come. Now that we know Sony launched its first musical malware experiment a full seven months before anyone said boo about the problem -- and, at last count, stashed its nasty little I-me-mine declaration on no less than 52 different titles -- some of the more thoughtful technology analysts are turning their attention to failures of the newly-ironicized "security software industry" in this case. In a nutshell: Consumers have paid these companies untold millions of dollars in recent years, only to find that instead of hiring ever-vigilant technology watchdogs, they've been supporting a bunch of Barney Fife impersonators who spend seven months trying to get the bullets into their guns. Open-source anti-virus software never looked as good as it does after this episode, that's for sure. My time is up. Feel free to write with comments, complaints, or counter-rants. And to everyone who has written lately: my apologies for not responding more quickly. I appreciate hearing from you, and I'll do my best to get caught up with all of you in the very near future. Until then, have a great holiday. I'll be back with the newsletter at our regular time next week.
Matt McKenzie
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Sun Throws Solaris Onto Open-Source DB Bandwagon
Web Domain Accord Offers Something To Upset Everyone
Hackers Take Parting Shots At Sony's Rootkit 'Fix'
IBM Details DB2 Improvements For Planned 2006 Release
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First Look: Microsoft Office 12 Beta 1
Special Coverage: 20 Years Of Windows
Windows At 20: The Good, The Bad, The Really Bad
The Making Of Windows 1.0
Windows: A Timeline
'Vista' And Beyond: Windows Looks Ahead
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