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I was just reading this article from the Wall Street Journal and was struck by how it butchered an issue very important to everybody who uses the internet. Mind you, this isn’t a WSJ “blog” post, this is the full-on deal apparently penned by Monica Langley and Jessica E. Vascellaro...

If you’re launching a start-up at Demo or TC50, you need to do better than any of these. If your home page links to a PDF “info sheet” you fail. Now, some of these suck for the sole reason that the start-up itself seems to be a pointless idea. Some combine terrible company and product...

There’s an article over at everybody’s favorite internet tabloid The Register about IE 8’s decision to default to Compatibility View (that is, IE 7 emulation) for INTRAnet sites.  The article lambastes the IE team for “breaking its promise to embrace web standards.”...

Randall Stross, the same guy who recently said Microsoft should abandon Windows, says on the NY Times site that passwords aren’t good because they’re vulnerable to spoofing attacks, and that they should be replaced by “information cards.” Well, he’s got a point here, and...

Flash and Java, I’m looking at you. You may have heard about the paper released at this week’s Black Hat conference, describing limitations in Windows’ memory protection schemes like ASLR, DEP, etc.  The paper is well-written, very detailed, and I’ve no reason to doubt that it’s pretty accurate...

A couple months ago I posted about an article by some guy at Business Week, that made all sorts of rubbish claims about Windows and OS X. Not to be outdone, Randall Stross at the NY times decided he could use some TechMeme love and wrote basically the same piece. He says of Windows: Painfully visible...

As I read the initial details about Apple’s “Snow Leopard” release (ostensibly called OS X 10.6), I got to thinking… What do they mean that they’ve taken the focus away from new features? From Apple.com: Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard — scheduled to...

If they keep losing people at this rate, you’re bound to be running the place pretty soon.

Windows Search 4.0 was released this afternoon.  This release focuses on performance and reliability improvements.  Here are some highlights: Faster queries, often several times faster Faster indexing / reduced resource usage Support for EFS (encrypted folders) Support for indexing delegate...

I just read this post on the Revision3 blog from their CEO, describing a massive Denial of Service attack perpetrated against them over the Memorial Day weekend.  The attack came from a company called MediaDefender Now why would MediaDefender be trying to put Revision3 out of business? Heck, we...