a single thought about HEROES happen {here}
They are throwing a fuss about computer viruses and a rootkit when the bug is on the lady's website. Umm.. What?
Since when does a bug on a personal, ancient computer affect what your website is doing?
How does this comic make any sense whatsoever?
Somebody, tell me.
Microsoft attempting to purchase Yahoo!
Microsoft has offered a bid of $44,600,000,000 to purchase Yahoo! It is said that this is one of the biggest takeovers in history, and The biggest in the technology sector.
My question is, what does this mean for the Internet?
Would Microsoft keep Yahoo, or would it move everything over to its own type of systems? Would Yahoo logins turn to nothing but Microsoft Live IDs? Will Flickr just become part of the Windows Life system?
It will be fascinating to watch where this goes.
Microsoft joins DataPortability
DataPortability has continued moving forward. Now, word in the tubes is that Microsoft is joining, and from what I gather, they will be making a way to use their Windows Live system portable. Hopefully with OpenID and OpenAuth and etc.
Here is the original posting from Windows Live Dev:
I’m pretty excited about the news that Microsoft is joining Dataportability.org. A lot of the work we’ve been doing at dev.live.com over the last year has focused on opening up data stored in Windows Live in secure and user-friendly ways. The Windows Live Contacts control and API, for example, allows users to share their Windows Live Contacts with other sites. We’re working on more APIs that allow users to move their data around the Web—and we can’t wait to see how this new effort can help.
Here’s the official announcement:
“Today Microsoft is announcing that it has joined DataPortability.org, a group committed to advancing the conversation about the portability, security and privacy of individuals’ information online. There are important security and privacy issues to solve as the internet evolves, and we are committed to being an integral part of the industry conversation on behalf of our users.
The decision to join DataPortability.org is an outgrowth of a deeper theme that technology and the internet should be deployed to help people be at the center of their online worlds, a theme that has begun to permeate our products and services over the past few years. We believe the logical evolution of the internet is to enable the removal of barriers to provide integrated, seamless experiences, but to do so in a manner that ensures that users retain full control over the security and privacy of their information.
Windows Live is focused on providing tools and a platform to enable these types of seamless experiences. Windows Live has more than 420 million active Live IDs that work across our services and across partner sites. Through each Windows Live advancement we’re making technical investments to ensure users’ information is available to them in the places they want, even across the networks they use every day. Windows Live Writer, Mail, Photo Gallery and Spaces, for example, allow users to get access and publish to the places they want, even outside Microsoft’s network. And the Windows Live Platform and Terms of Use offer a set of APIs and controls that allow for the growth of an ecosystem based on the premise of user control and portability.
Microsoft feels strongly that getting the right balance for data portability, security and privacy is critical for the industry, and doing it well requires the participation of all the major web services. We are no stranger to these types of broad industry dialogues, and the one that is taking shape at DataPortability.org will be very effective in furthering users’ interests.”
What Windows Vista would have been
After about five years, people were wondering what Windows was doing and why their operating system wasn't out yet. Businesses and Technology enthusiasts were pushing Microsoft to release their next big upgrade, but Microsoft's technology specialists weren't anywhere near finished with Windows Vista. There were a lot of features that they really wanted to put into it, and judging from some YouTube videos I've seen (some of which may not be authentic), Windows Vista was going to be one hell of an operating system, with one hell of a GUI.
After being rushed, they took away the WinFS, which was truly going to be a revolutionary file system (or so they say). But they also toned down the GUI a lot. And I can see why. Even after Windows Vista was released, there was a lot of complain over how computers that were marked "Windows Vista Capable" were only capable of running Windows Vista in basic mode, not with Aero capabilities. Imagine how much more infuriated people would have been if the GUI had in fact been much better. Computers (considering how bloated Vista is) would have needed to be much faster, and have much higher computer requirements.
This is my opinion anyway, based on some videos I watched, although, I can not confirm how authentic they are, I've posted some links below:
Enjoy yourself ^.~
Until Later,
Navarr