~kanarip

Overheard:

Question: "You apply a Server, Domain Controller and Client security policy requiring all network traffic to be encrypted. Some of your users report that they cannot log in or access network resources. What is the easiest way to resolve the problem?"

Answer: "Tell the user to reboot the computer."

This means, essentially, implicitly, that the policy that *all* network traffic should be encrypted, doesn't apply to *all* traffic ('cause clients can get their updated configuration without being compliant to the new configuration). *sigh* :/

In the endless series of Microsoft FAIL blog posts, here's a new one:

Microsoft argues to Best Buy company employees the various reasons of why Windows 7 isn't just better then Linux, it trashes Linux by busting what they would wish were myths, amongst which:

"Windows offers your customers choice and compatibility"

I'll let you read the rest of it here, and here

This is blog post number one in a probably endless series posted to regularly as long as I keep paying attention.

Microsoft says, according to this article;

"Because the current USB 3.0 spec is currently not signed off, we're challenged and we won't have support for USB 3.0 in Windows 7 at RTM (release to manufacturing)" - Lars Giusti

And I conclude they are blaming the fact that USB 3.0 specs have not been signed off on by whomever. They also blame that there is hardly any USB 3.0 hardware out there;

"That makes it challenging for several reasons. Since the spec isn't signed off we don't see any USB 3.0 hardware in the market or even prototypes available yet. With those two disadvantages we cannot develop, create, and design support yet for USB 3.0. But we are staffing up. We are making plans" - Lars Giusti

Note the "cannot develop, create and design support yet"...

That however does not stop Linux; read here, and Softpedia, and kernelnewbies.org, and probably in more locations. It's not that one *cannot* create/develop/support USB 3.0, dear Microsoft.