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  Friday, March 23, 2007

     Windows Vista - OS with best security vulnerability profile
An article by Ryan Naraine titled "90-day report card: Windows Vista fared better than competitors" talks about a 90-Day Vulnerability Report card of different OS's including Windows Vista, Windows Xp, RHEL, Ubuntu 6.06, Novel SLED10 and MacOS X 10.4 pubished by Jeff Jones.


As you can see in the article by Ryan and the chart from the report clearly shows that the new operating system has a much better security vulnerability profile than its predecessor and several other modern workstation opearting systems including Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novel and Apple products.



This reminds of of people saying that Linux and Apple OS are more secure than Windows OS. What do you say Linux and Apple Users?











Apple | Linux | MyThoughts | Operating System | Review | Windows XP | WindowsVista

3/23/2007 1:48:32 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
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  Thursday, March 22, 2007

     Adobe turns to the dark side - Is it the revenge of the Sith?

When Vista was released or even when it was in Beta stage there were software compatibility issues. Softwares that ran on Windows Xp were incompatible with Windows Vista. Windows Vista is designed to be more secure and softwares to run on Vista require to follow the Vista guidelines. After the release of Windows Vista, most of the Software comapanies have released an update to their products which made it compatible with Windows Vista. Software companies like Corel have released an update to their products.

Adobe on the other hand has asked its customer to pay for new Vista compatible version of many of their products. Actually Adobe has no plans to ensure that its currently shipping products work properly with Vista.

Paul Thurrott in his newsletter "WinInfo Update dated March 21" shows us how the users of Adobe products will have to pay for the updated version to achieve full Vista compatiblity. Actually many of the products cost several hundred dollars a piece.

As further mentioned in the newsletter "Critics are charging Adobe with harming customers as a payback for Micosoft's decision to compete directly with Adobe in various markets."

How can a user be charged for an update of a software to run it on a new OS when he has already purchased the sofware. It clearly shows how Adobe is following Anti-Microsoft policy and as a reason of which its users will have to suffer.

Adobe should remember that a user who pays for a product should get full support and should not suffer.

Whats your say?



Adobe | Software | Windows XP | WindowsVista

3/22/2007 1:46:01 AM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
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  Tuesday, March 20, 2007

     Microsoft® .NET™ Framework 3.0
In the pre-release version .NET Framework 3.0 was called WinFX. It is the new managed-code programming model for windows. It combines the power of .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have a better user experience, seamless communication across technology boundaries and support for a wide range of business processes.

It is a integral part of Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" operating systems, it is also available for Windows Xp in the Service Pack2 and in Service Pack1 of Windows Server 2003.

The .NET Framework 3.0 adds new technologies to the .NET Framework 2.0 which makes the .NET Framework 3.0 a superset of the .NET Framework 2.0. This new version of the .NET Framework is designed to provide backward compatiblity with the previous version.



.NET Framework 3.0 consists of these major components:

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) formerly codenamed "Avalon" - It is a new user interface subsystem and API based on XML and vector graphics, which uses 3D graphics hardware and Direct3D technologies.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) formerly codenamed "Indigo" - It is a service-oriented messaging system which allows programs to interoperate locally or remotely similar to web services.

Windows WorkFlow Foundation (WF) - It allows for building of task automation and integrated transactions using workflows.

Windows CardSpace formerly codenamed "InfoCard" - It is a software component which securely stores a person's digital identities and provides a unified interface for choosing the identity for a particular transaction for eg. logging in to a website.

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0



Installing and Detecting .NET Framework 3.0

To install .NET Framework 3.0, you must have one of the following operating systems installed :
- Microsoft Windows Xp Home or Xp Home Professional with Service Pack 2 or later.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family with Service Pack 1 or later.

Minimum hardware requirement to install .NET Framework 3.0 is Pentium 400 MHz with 96 MB RAM but recommended is Pentium 1 GHz or higher with 256 MB RAM.

To check if .NET Framework 3.0 is installed you can look for this specific registry key in the Registry

For .NET Framework 3.0
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.0\Setup" the DWORD value of this key would be "1".

Similarly to check if version 2 is installed or not you can check for following registry entry
 "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v2.0.50727" the DWORD value of this also would be "1".

You can Click Here for detecting .NET Framework 3.0 on your system using internet explorer.

You can click here to download .NET Framework 3.0 from MSDN.


.NET 3.0 | .NET Framework | CLR | Microsoft | Windows XP | WindowsVista | WPF | XAML

3/20/2007 2:02:28 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
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