Microsoft Lock-in?
June 3, 2003
The recent announcement of a partnership between AOL Time Warner and Microsoft represents an interesting new twist in the shaping of the Internet. For the past few years, Microsoft has been trying to figure out how to remain relevant in an era of increasing openness. The rise of HTML and of HTTP as the underlying protocol […]
AOL-Microsoft Settlement: The Future
May 30, 2003
AOL and Microsoft have announced an end to their feud. It seems to me that there is a lot in there that needs to be dissected and pondered about. It will impact the development of the Internet for years to come. IM : One of the conditions for the AOL/Time Warner merger was that AOL open its […]
Buggy Linux, Buggy Windows
May 27, 2003
Going through emails for the past week, I found an interesting article about how buggy Linux and Windows are. It’s a good counter argument to my own column on the move from Windows to Linux. One thing I would question, however, is the viability of the study. The problem comes from some of the basic assessment. First is […]
TNL.net moves off Windows
April 9, 2003
Over the past year, it has seemed like TNL.net had gone quiet. Few updates were made to the site and fewer newsletters were being published. Behind the scene, however, I was busy rebuilding the site from the ground up. The new TNL.net was relaunched in late January 2003, about a month behind the schedule I had originally set. […]
The Day After
September 12, 2001
The day after the towers fell
Seeing Red
August 5, 2001
Last week, for the second week in a row, IIS administrators have had to face Code Red. More than a simple virus, Code Red could represent a new acceleration in the online virus war and shows that we may not be ready, as an industry, for the era of web services. A Rapid Epidemic Now that I’ve got […]
Ogg Vorbis: MP3 Contender?
March 12, 2001
With Linux becoming a strong alternative to Microsoft’s operating system, some members of the open source community are setting their sights on a new target: the music industry. The group has introduced a new sound format called Ogg Vorbis, which promises to deliver better sound quality or smaller digital music files than the popular MP3 file format. Ogg […]
Open Source IIS
April 14, 2000
Shame on Microsoft! Today, it was announced that the Redmond company had send out version of its IIS 4.0 server with a backdoor. At the height of its war with Netscape, Microsoft engineers included a secret backdoor password using the phrase Netscape engineers are weenies! into version of IIS. As a result, Anyone writing a script that would access […]
MS-DOJ Talks Falter: So What?
April 2, 2000
Microsoft and the Department of Justice fail to come to an agreement, insuring that Microsoft will be seen as a monopoly.
Transmeta Changes the Landscape
January 19, 2000
Morphing software could allow computer chips to change based on software upgrades. A new company, Transmeta, enters the space and could redefine how chips are produced.
