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Archive for July, 2005

WinVi : Coming soon at a Desktop near you…

Microsoft Finally found a name for the Next Version of Windows. Its Windows Vista or should we call it WinVi. The name suits it more because this version of Windows Codenamed “Longhorn” is based on the NT 6 Technology(Vi => Roman 6).

Microsoft following the announcemnt of the new name also announced the Beta 1 of [...]

Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog - Version 5.04 Reviewed!

Disappointed with SuSE 9.3 Professional, I decided to try Ubuntu. The first release of Ubuntu(Warty Warthog) was a decent distro..compared to other new ones, but at that time Fedora & Mandrake had matured enough for desktop usage. The main inviting factor for Ubuntu is the Debian Base.Yes! another Debian based, but I would call Ubuntu [...]

Has Microsoft Fallen in Love with Linux?

Stuart Cohen’ comments, CEO of Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), regarding Microsoft’s intentions of developing some of its applications for open-source and Linux have made many daydream and even fantasize about how would Microsoft Office 2007 for Linux look like.
Full Story here…

Filtering spam in Novell Evolution

Came across this excellent article on Filtering Spam Using Novell Evolution
http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/07/01/1521254.shtml?tid=130

Microsoft claims Windows more secure than Linux..hehe…

Microsoft has claimed that open source database products and servers such as Linux have had a “significantly greater number and severity of vulnerabilities compared with Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000″.
I guess they forgot about MS.Blaster, and as far as my memory goes the world is yet to see NIX.Blaster!!!:)
Btw..a review of operating systems..on [...]