Microsoft has restructured its Windows Core Operating System Division into five teams in a move designed to better focus on PC hardware and provide a richer set of customer solutions. The software giant is also making changes on the security front by bringing its security, Trustworthy Computing and Engineering Excellence teams together in one group, known as the Trustworthy Computing Team, Jim Desler, Microsoft’s group public relations manager, told eWEEK Oct. 12.
The same restructuring that was announced earlier this year. If so, why is eweek late and why is osnews reporting it as news?
Because MS is all restructuration and no change…
Holding the external interfaces makes sense for end user applications.
F/OSS kernels tend to be far more ruthless with restructuring and changing their internal interfaces, improving them.
You can polish the org chart all day, but if the code is a turd, ain’t no polishing it.
🙂 – Dinner for One – :
“The same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?”
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Instead of being designed by committee, it will be designed by 5 committees. And, maybe, a dog. Hmmm. Glad I only use Windows 40 hours a week.
So the cute yellow dog is on the commitee as well ?
Cool – that dog has visions – it has attitude – it has special contacts & lots of yummy bones stashed in it’s hut – but unfortunatly more prone to arthritis due to its size.
Go Doggy !
😉
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Honestly I gave ubuntu a try. It works but it is not there yet. Here are my complains and before you say it works for me etc, i want to say it did not work for me and i went back to Windows. The day it works for me out of the box, i will consider it. So don’t give me the it works for me crap.
1. On my laptop power management did not work. Tried both ACPI and APM. If i left laptop unplugged, it would just hang. With power, it never went to sleep.
2. Premeier applications are missing with bad alternatives. Gaim just doesn’t cut in features and functionality when compared to yahoo messenger and MSN messenger. Yet it is great as a cross-messenger tool but not so great for individual messenger use. Windows has both gaim and premier messenger clients.
3. WMV files doesn’t work out of the box and also VLC media player didn’t play mms streams at all.
4. Open office is not as polished as word and it is dog slow.
5. Fonts in Linux are not that good.
other than that, for browsing internet etc i think it is ok.
Oh and btw i had severe headaches installing it. Dapper installation always failed so i installed Ubuntu 5 and then upgraded to Dapper. But i found htat out after wasting 4 CDs and useful time:(
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honestly I DO NOT CARE about ure issues with ubuntu
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there are enough ubuntu “news” items around to which you can moan to
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trolling & hyjacking
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Just IMO
That should, um, be ‘your’…
OK, it’s fair to compare Ubuntu and Windows, but I don’t think you are making a valuable comparison.
Did Windows work for you out of the box the first time you installed and used it? Oh, it was preinstalled for you the first time you used it, wasn’t it? Then to be fair you need to compare a pre-installed Ubuntu system.
WMV files don’t work well because they are a proprietary format. The only reason they work at all is because some very smart, dedicated developers found ways to make them work. The same is true of OpenOffice.org with Word files.
I’ve itemized the things that concern me about Windows here, http://jackson.io/linux/windows_explanation.html, and what I like about Linux here, http://jackson.io/linux/#prefer_linux.
More microsoft truthiness “Trusworthy computing”