From News.com’s interview with Bill Gates:
Longhorn, in terms of unifying the way you do things, is about letting people get at more of the power and having more simplicity.
Sounds a lot like Mac OS X. Apple is way ahead and now MS must play catch up.
We demonstrated VisiCalc running on Longhorn today, to show that 20 years of compatibility is a serious thing–people who want to run Electric Pencil and dBase and early versions of 1-2-3 if they want. We have built a compatible operating system. That’s one of the things that Microsoft does.
Again, Apple is already there in terms of backwards compatibility both in terms of OS (Classic) and processor (680×0).
If Bill was really concerned about compatibility he would embrace open standards and get his browser up to par. What Bill really wants is to continually increase the lock-in for his Microsoft Empire.
Wired News: Cloaking Device Made for Spammers
According to Tubul, his group controls 450,000 “Trojaned” systems, most of them home computers running Windows with high-speed connections. The hacked systems contain special software developed by the Polish group that routes traffic between Internet users and customers’ websites through thousands of the hijacked computers. The numerous intermediary systems confound tools such as traceroute, effectively laundering the true location of the website. To utilize the service, customers simply configure their sites to use any of several domain-name system servers controlled by the Polish group, Tubul said.
Oh, there’s some good news. Thanks Microsoft for your secure OS.
From USATODAY.com:
Spyware can herd users to porn and gambling Web pages, track where users go on the Internet, trigger a deluge of pop-up ads and slow PC performance.
Wake up people! Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, et. al. have so many security problems, this kind of crap will never go away. Stop using Microsoft products. Not to say that other software products don’t have their problems, because they do. But I can almost guarantee that if you switch away from Microsoft products you will be 95% free spyware.
Too help you see how bad spyware is on your PC, ecrosstexas will soon feature Doxdesk’s Parasite script. The idea comes from the great Mark Pilgrim of course!
