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Microsoft bad cop is up against the wall

Last time they played this game they were pushing OOXML as an ISO standard. Before that they were promising to bury open source in patent suits. Now they're trying to sneak semi-proprietary code on their own site. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Cop, Wall, Lex Luthor, Godzilla, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-05

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Cyber Defcon 4

I am preparing my next road show pitch. My past presentations have followed a pattern. There is one slide I have been using for seven years now, ever since I joined Gartner as an analyst as a matter of fact. It is the Threat Hierarchy slide. It lists...

Tags: Attack, Security, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Internal fraud coupled with IT savvy is a killer combination

Internal fraud coupled with IT savvy is a killer combinationRounding errorA very clever scam was to move the money that disappeared when a transaction was rounded to cents to a special account. With enough transactions, the account held a substantial amount of money.Thieves may not be as clever as...

Tags: E-mail, information technology, SMTP, Log4Net, fraud

Discussion threads 2006-06-14

Day 4: Borland's Ted Nielson says: "DevCo" will continue JBuilder tradition on Eclipse framework

(Ted Nielson, CEO of Borland gave the Thursday morning keynote at EclipseCon 2006. The subject was "Eclipse Lessons for Enterprise Development".) Ted: First let me get this IDE spin off question out of the way and explain what's going on. At Borland, we discovered we were doing...

Tags: Borland Software Corp., IDE, DevCo, open source

Blog posts 2006-03-23

Google conspiracy theories

Ego surfing is fun and educational. That's how I discovered that my articles for ZDNet had gotten picked up by subsidiaries that write in funny characters (Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean...Korean is the neatest looking). What's even more fun is to run those articles through babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com) and see...

Tags: Google Inc., John Carroll

Blog posts 2005-09-07