Eye on Microsoft: Advertising, Vista 7, and Conficker
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-03-25 09:05:37 UTC
- Modified: 2009-03-25 09:05:37 UTC
Summary: Some quick links to news of interest about Microsoft
Microsoft Underwhelms With Preview Of Futuristic Ad Technologies
Call us crazy, but isn’t the point of a public demo to generate excitement?
Windows 7: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
It's as if someone took a collection of day-glow spray paint cans and just sort of splattered the thing. Ugh! Truly horrible looking.
April Fools' Day is no joke to Windows: Conficker to Phone Home on April Fools' Day
Symantec Corp.'s Vincent Weafer, vice president of the company's security response group, agreed with Stewart that it's impossible to know ahead of time what stunt Conficker's controllers will pull next week. "Nobody has any real idea," said Weafer. "There's no indication of what it will do April 1."
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Conficker, which is also called Downadup by some security companies, first appeared late last year, and originally exploited a Windows vulnerability that Microsoft Corp. patched in an October 2008 emergency update. In early 2009, the next version -- Conficker.b -- infected millions of PCs in just a few days.
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Comments
David Gerard
2009-03-25 15:01:33
He thought that Microsoft not being able to keep their stock price rising would doom them quickly, and it's actually taken nine years. But it describes the present netbook woes quite well.
(Given the failure of most predictions of Microsoft's inevitable doom, I predict they'll decline very slowly indeed, and turn into a services company if they're lucky.)
Roy Schestowitz
2009-03-25 15:20:03
The same goes for the Web, which Google -- powered by Free software for the most part -- gives Microsoft a good lesson in.
Just recently: Microsoft's business model is done
David Gerard
2009-03-25 16:04:12
I still think they could sell Zunes if third-party firmware was more feasible. A 30GB Zune with Rockbox that actually uses the wifi would be a really nice gadget. I realise this will never happen.
Roy Schestowitz
2009-03-25 16:15:59