Microsoft makes hard decisions easier
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| But next season is 2008. Suddenly, three things have happened. The cost of
| the bits to make our gizmos has fallen through the floor - we can get a
| complete PC through the channel with a ticket price of £200. And, while
| Microsoft is still looking for a good chunk of that retail price for a copy
| of Windows, that there free software seems to be going down a storm with the
| punters. And, thirdly, this. Microsoft has been forced to admit that one of
| its major pushes into the home sector, the Windows Home Server, sold (inter
| alia) as the perfect way to store all that ever-increasing mass of home
| digital data and keep it safe, can corrupt home finance, media and other
| files.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006872o-2000331777b,00.htm
There's this one also:
Security of Adult Websites Compromised
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| This article claims the software that runs the back end of either 35% or
| 80%-95% (depending on which part of the article you read) has been
| compromised, and that the adult industry is hushing this up.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/security_of_adu.html
One has to wonder which sites were involved and what they ran on before
becoming zombies.
Related:
Welcome to the Ubuntu Home Server Project
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| Ubuntu Home Server (UHS) will be an edition of the Ubuntu operating system
| which allows users to administer their home network.
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http://www.ubuntuhomeserver.org/
Who needs Windows Home Server with Linux around?
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| Is this a joke? I only recently started paying attention to Windows Home
| Server, since I tend to focus more on desktop operating systems and
| enterprise server systems. So I didn't realize until now that WHS is really
| just a vanilla file server.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9015653445.html
Will bad backups doom Windows Home Server?
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| Microsoft just announced it's working on Windows Home Server, which
| among other features, will automatically back up files on all PCs in
| the home. But if the product uses the same kind of brain-dead backup
| built into Windows Vista, this is a product that will be dead on arrival.
|
| The backup tool built into Windows Vista may be the worst utility
| every packed into an operating system. It doesn't allow you to back
| up individual files, folders or even file types. Instead, you have to
| back up every single file and folder of broad generic types.
|
| For example, if you want to back up a single picture, you have to back
| up every single graphic of every graphic file type on your entire PC,
| including all the graphics that Vista itself uses. This means you can
| be forced to back up hundreds of gigabytes of files if you only want
| to back up a few family photos.
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http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4303
Windows Home Server fan club [Shills?] beats me up for asking if WHS is
Microsoft’s next flop
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| Literally within minutes of each other (strangely coincidental), I received
| two e-mails — one from a colleague and the other from someone who concealed
| their identity — that basically told me I was out of line for questioning the
| chances that Microsoft’s Windows Home Server will succeed.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=851
Home Servers Hold Big Promise, Limited Appeal
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| While Vista's been grabbing all the headlines and hype, Microsoft's gone and
| released another new operating system, and servers running it will probably
| be the coolest gadgets most consumers won't rush out to buy.
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http://www.smartmoney.com/Techsmart/index.cfm?story=20070906&afl=yahoo
More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing
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| "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista
| operating system is set to be rewritten..."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=30516
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| In an entry on the Home Server blog, program manager Chris Sullivan
| said that the group has received nearly 2,400 bug reports so far from
| beta testers, and still had 495, or about 21% of the total, classified
| as "active."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014183&intsrc=news_ts_head
Will Windows Home Server be Microsoft’s next flop?
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| If you buy-off on the theory that the world seems to be heading in the
| opposite direction that Microsoft wants to lead it, then you can’t help but
| wonder what the long term prospects for an offering like Windows Home Server
| are. Not good, if you ask me.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=791
More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing
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| "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista
| operating system is set to be rewritten..."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=30516
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