Vista

Even Gartner, who I have always thought as company that has over-hyped Microsoft, has come to realize that Vista was a horrible horrible mistake.

The entire Windows eco-system is collapsing because it is too big and not secure enough. So much of the corporate expense of Windows is not just the Microsoft licenses, but the huge cost of management and security software. This cost also includes massive hardware costs that are incured by every system that needs to run that software.

I think the tipping point is here. Look at the success of hardware like the Asus Eee laptop. Apple! Are you listening? Blot is out and you are next on the chopping block if you aren't careful! 

I was just messing around with my Zaurus PDA this week. I've been installing Android, the gPhone software. I also installed a full debian distro on it called Titchy Linux. Then I installed Angstrom, which is also a Linux distro based on the former OpenZaurus project. 

This is hilarious. I couldn't pass it up

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I read this article over at Softpedia.com. I may be completely off base here, but why would cursors, animated cursors, or icons ever need anything more than user mode access? It never fails to amaze me how vulnerable we are with some software because it was architected incorrectly and insecurely to begin with. I just recently became aware of some issues with some software installation packages at work. There were so many problems with these packages that I couldn't name them all. Were these problems something that needed be solved individually? No. They were all caused by taking a snap shot of an application install rather than using the vendors MSI file and applying minor changes via an MST.