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Bill Gates says IBM is his biggest competitor

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

In an interview today, Bill Gates says IBM is Microsoft’s biggest competitor:
“The biggest company in the computer industry by far is IBM.”
“They have the four times the employees that I have, way more revenues than I have. IBM has always been our biggest competitor. The press just doesn’t like to write about IBM.”

Redesigned Windows Vista website

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Microsoft redesigned Windows Vista’s website.
The picture of the man at the top of the mountain was a very good idea.

Source code paste bin

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

How many times you needed to share a piece of code with someone, but it wouldn’t fit in the messenger textbox, and sending an email was incovenient?
That’s when you use a paste bin. And since I had a spare domain name (DevPub) and hosting account, I decided to create my own paste bin: the […]

Feedpedia Online beta release

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

So I decided to put the Feedpedia RSS reader online at http://www.feedpedia.com even though it’s not finished - there’s still one major part left: My Account which allows the users to create their own Today page with the feeds they want, and which will integrate smoothly with the Feedpedia Windows application.

OS vulnerabilities in 2005

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Statistics show that during 2005 the following number of vulnerabilities were found in the operating systems:
812 Windows operating system vulnerabilities;
2328 Unix/Linux operating vulnerabilities;
Furthermore, since Windows dominates the desktop OS, I tend to believe that most of the possible exploits and vulnerabilities were already discovered. However, since Linux has only a small share of the desktop, […]