Microsoft supports the work of open source
Microsoft has its own quality, advocates of open source code.
She cash for the Apache organization, monitors the development of open-source web server software.
He also promised to open part of its software and communication protocols, so that developers can freely explore and use.
Trains will be important for Microsoft, because the former opposition on how open source software is written and saved.
Cash and code
There were ads on Open Source Convention in a speech Sam Ramji – director of platform strategy for Microsoft.
The software is written in the context of the ethics of open-source developer offers free access to the internal functioning of the Code.
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Linux on the desktop security: This is a process and architecture
Linux is indeed more reliable than Windows? It is clear that after this article, but the reasons have less to do with “a thousand eyes” and much more to do with “intelligent design”.
There are many reasons why Linux PC from malicious software secure than Windows PC. The most obvious is how the user interacts with the operating system ….
– Virus Linux is doomed since the beginning of conception and there are rough jungle. For ELF binary file to be infected with the virus, the worm is the first to write access to other programs. Previously, it must somehow hide. Binary-only applications are so rare in the world Linux, that not all software in general, the company develops. After a day in the desert, somebody will find a binary file hides something else and the element of surprise se ha Ido. We are used to be a source available. Try to hide malicious code or simply ….
Windows users have become accustomed to constantly running applications with administrative rights. First Cree mind that the Windows XP machine in most cases the only time that you, and you have administrative rights. It’s easy for the virus or worm spread to all people with open doors ….
Obviously, the developers of Microsoft, at least This is a smart, too? That fundamental design decision that really is not much to do with Linux developers gods security and safety is the developer of Windows clowns, at least in relation to an administrator. To its credit, Microsoft has changed this view but that of other design decisions, articles?
All security experts want independence? I certainly do not ….
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Microsoft against Apple in the reliability of Ubuntu OS update
Companies that measures the reliability of Internet services, Microsoft has the top score in test run for the modernization of services.
Microsoft’s Windows Update available, 100 percent in the second quarter of 2008, Pingdom said in the blog posting Friday. Apple service is 2 hours and 34 minutes, with 99.9 per cent availability and canonical version of Ubuntu Linux was extended for 1 day, 5 hours and 45 minutes, 98.64 percent uptime.
“Microsoft will win this hands down,” said Pingdom. He noted that Ubuntu service is also available in the mirror, however.
The company tested three services every five minutes.
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